Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:01:07 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
Cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...aro.org>,
	Robert Lee <rob.lee@...aro.org>, len.brown@...el.com,
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	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Consolidate cpuidle functionality

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com> wrote:
> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...aro.org> writes:
> >
> >> On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Robert Lee wrote:
> >>> This patch series moves various functionality duplicated in platform
> >>> cpuidle drivers to the core cpuidle driver. Also, the platform irq
> >>> disabling was removed as it appears that all calls into
> >>> cpuidle_call_idle will have already called local_irq_disable().
> >>>
> >>> These changes have been pulled into linux-next.
> >>>
> >>> Len, Andrew, can a request be made for Linus to pull these changes?
> >>
> >> FWIW, Len seems to be rather inactive on the kernel mailing list right
> >> now and generally not very interested in anything outside of x86 and
> >> acpi. If he doesn't reply in the next few days and Andrew also isn't
> >> interested in handling these patches, I'd suggest you just send the pull
> >> request to Linus, with Len on Cc and explain that you tried to send
> >> them through him but gave up in the end.
> >
> > FWIW, I have not had good luck getting response for proposed core
> > CPUidle changes either:
> >
> >        http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/19/374
> >
> > Maybe it's time that drivers/cpuidle gets a maintainer.  With lots of
> > discussions of scheduler changes that affect load estimation, I suspect
> > we're all going to have a bit of CPUidle work to do in the
> > not-so-distant future.
> >
> 
> I don't mean to be piling on to Len here, but Daniel Lezcano too has a
> bunch of clean ups that didn't get any maintainer review for over two
> months. He has now refreshed them for 3.3 and is getting ready to send
> them out again. We (Linaro) expect to be spending a lot of time on
> cpuidle in the future and would be glad to help review, test and
> collect patches into a tree for Linus/Andrew to pull while we wait for
> Len to respond or another maintainer to emerge.

Well, I discussed that before with Arjan and he said he would maintain
CPUidle if Len didn't have the time, but it seems he didn't expect that
there would be a lot of work on it in the near future.

So, I suggest that if neither Len nor Arjan reappear shortly, people can
send CPUidle patches to me.

Thanks,
Rafael
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