linux-kernel - Re: [v10 PATCH 9/9]: POWER: Enable default_idle when power

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Date:	Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:41:38 -0800
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To:	arun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v10 PATCH 9/9]: POWER: Enable default_idle when power_save=off

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 15:33 +0530, Arun R Bharadwaj wrote:
> +int boot_option_idle_override = 0;
> + 

Doesn't need to be set to zero AFAIK, since we do a mass initialization
to zero during boot up. Did you notice some type of failure when you
didn't initialize that to zero?

(checkpatch output below..)
--

ERROR: do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL
#97: FILE: arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c:43:
+int boot_option_idle_override = 0;

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 31 lines checked

Your patch has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.



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