Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] thermal/cpu idle cooling: Introduce cpu idle cooling driver

[Daniel Lezcano]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:11:35AM +0530, viresh kumar wrote:
> + Daniel
> 
> On 05-06-17, 17:07, Tao Wang wrote:
> > cpu idle cooling driver performs synchronized idle injection across
> > all cpu in same cluster, offers a new method to cooling down cpu,
> > that is similar to intel_power_clamp driver, but is basically
> > designed for ARM platform.
> > Each cluster has its own idle cooling device, each core has its own
> > idle injection thread, idle injection thread use play_idle to enter
> > idle. In order to reach deepest idle state, all cores are aligned by
> > jiffies. the injected idle ratio can be controlled through cooling
> > device interface.
> > 

I don't see any ARM specific code in this driver as stated in the description.

Was it considered to make the intel_powerclamp and this driver to converge to a
single generic driver?