On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 08:54:03AM -0500, Rob Lee wrote:
+void __init imx_cpuidle_set_driver(struct cpuidle_driver *p) +{
- drv = p;
+}
You like it complicated, eh? Why do you introduce a function which sets a variable...
This complication is used to deal with the timing of various levels of init calls. More explanation below.
Regardless of how you end up solving this, it's probably a good idea to document the rationale, perhaps cribbing from what you describe below..
If I called imx_cpuidle_init directly from imx5 or imx6q init routines, it would be getting called before the coreinit_call of core cpuidle causing a failure. There were various other directions to take and all seemed less desirable than this one.
One alternative would be to add a function to return the pointer to the cpuidle driver object based on the machine type. Functionality exists to identify imx5 as a machine type but not imx6q, so I couldn't use that machine based method without adding that extra code.
Another alternative would be to add a general platform lateinit_call function to each platforms that support cpuidle.
..in a comment; without it, the code indeed looks bizarre.