Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC] Driver core: Use generic offline/online for CPU offline/online

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Apr 30 2013 - 15:58:08 EST


On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 08:27:53 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 02:01:10PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, April 29, 2013 04:11:06 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 02:28:02PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Rework the CPU hotplug code in drivers/base/cpu.c to use the
> > > > generic offline/online support introduced previously instead of
> > > > its own CPU-specific code.
> > > >
> > > > For this purpose, modify cpu_subsys to provide offline and online
> > > > callbacks for CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU set and remove the code handling
> > > > the CPU-specific 'online' sysfs attribute.
> > > >
> > > > This modification is not supposed to change the user-observable
> > > > behavior of the kernel (i.e. the 'online' attribute will be present
> > > > in exactly the same place in sysfs and should trigger exactly the
> > > > same actions as before).
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/base/cpu.c | 62 ++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
> > > > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Very nice, I like reductions like this :)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > So I guess the patches make sense to you overall?
>
> Overall, yes, I like them a lot.

Cool, thanks! :-)

Rafael

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/