On 2016-08-23 16:16:12 [+0200], Daniel Lezcano wrote: > Yes. If we can limit the number of duplicating enum for the same purpose > right now, it would be nice. Okay.
> > We could do that but you would have to ensure that only one CPUIDLE > > driver registers itself at a time and for those powerpc drivers it looks > > like you could have two registered (not sure about ARM's little/big (if > > you could have two of those later at run-time)). > > At the first glance, I don't think it is possible to register the cpu > hotplug callback twice because the cpuidle drivers are doing: … > So if a previous driver was already registered, cpuidle_register will > fail and register_cpu_notifier won't be hit. > > There is the same scenario for intel_idle and processor_idle (acpi). I tried to preserve everything as-is during the conversation. However if you are explicitly asking for this and you are sure that it will work then you can get it. No problem :) Sebastian
