Re: [PATCH 3/4] cpuidle: move enter_dead to the driver structure

On Thursday, July 05, 2012, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

The 'enter_dead' function is only used for processor_idle.c and the same function is used several times. We fall into the same abuse with the multiple callbacks for the same function.

This isn't abuse, mind you. This is a normal practice.

This patch fixes that by moving the 'enter_dead' function to the driver structure. A flag CPUIDLE_FLAG_DEAD_VALID has been added to handle the callback conditional invokation.

And how does that improve things?

Rafael