Re: [PATCH 3/7] idle, thermal, acpi: Remove home grown idle implementations

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Nov 20 2013 - 11:40:56 EST


On 11/20/2013 8:04 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
This does not fully preseve existing behaviour in that the generic
idle cycle function calls into the normal cpuidle governed idle
routines and should thus respect things like QoS parameters and the
like.


NAK on the powerclamp side.

powerclamp MUST NOT do that....
it is needed to go to the deepest state no matter what
(this is for when your system is overheating. there is not a lot of choice
here... alternative is an emergency reset that the hardware does for safety)


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