Re: [PATCH v6][RESEND] platform: x86: New BayTrail IOSF-SB MBI driver

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/07/2014 04:11 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I spoke with other developers and I apparently misunderstood the context
>> here. Distro's enable these features and this is too detailed for them to know
>> what to do with it. How about simply "Required to enable platform specific power
>> managemnet features on Baytrail"?
>>
>> KISS is easier said than done.
> 
> Well, I personally think that this code should go into arch/x86/ as library code
> needed to access IOSF Sideband on some platforms.  I probably would make modules
> depending on it select it, so for example if the RAPL driver is going to be
> built, your driver should be build either and rather unconditionally in that
> case.
> 
> So the rule should be "if something *may* need it, build it" in my opinion.
> 

I thought we were targeting this for drivers/x86?  However, perhaps with
power management tied in that doesn't make too much sense.

	-hpa


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