Re: [PATCH 8/8] intel_idle: create a native cpuidle driver forselect intel processors

[Kevin Hilman]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 20:22 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > >> >  drivers/idle/intel_idle.c       |  446
> 
> > >> Any reason this arch-specific driver needs to be in drivers/idle
> > >> instead of under a platform specific dir like arch/x86?
> 
> > To me that would be much less convenient as I expect to maintain my
> > platform-specific CPUidle driver along with the rest of my
> > platform-specific code.
> 
> I guess the reason is conveneince of the maintainer (me).

OK, fair enough.

At least that makes more sense to me than "keeping all users in one
place."

Kevin


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