Re: [RFC part1 PATCH 3/7] ACPI / processor_core: Rework _PDCrelated stuff to make it more arch-independent

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:51:40PM +0000, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Dec 2013 00:36:47 +0800
> Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > _PDC related stuff in processor_core.c is little bit X86/IA64 dependent,
> > rework the code to make it more arch-independent.
> > 
> > The return value of acpi_processor_eval_pdc() should be 'acpi_status' but
> > defined as 'int', fix it too.
> 
> Why not just define boot_options_idle_override as well. Then you can
> leave the code unchanged. Also more importantly you can have override
> values for ARM when it turns out you need those too and the logic will be
> the same for both processor families

The arguments to _PDC are architecture specific, so there do need to be 
code changes here.

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