linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC] Driver core: Use generic offline/online for CPU offline/online

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Message-ID: <18234756.omYDfXWPpx@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:01:10 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com,
	vasilis.liaskovitis@...fitbricks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 RFC] Driver core: Use generic offline/online for CPU offline/online

On Monday, April 29, 2013 04:11:06 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 02:28:02PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > 
> > Rework the CPU hotplug code in drivers/base/cpu.c to use the
> > generic offline/online support introduced previously instead of
> > its own CPU-specific code.
> > 
> > For this purpose, modify cpu_subsys to provide offline and online
> > callbacks for CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU set and remove the code handling
> > the CPU-specific 'online' sysfs attribute.
> > 
> > This modification is not supposed to change the user-observable
> > behavior of the kernel (i.e. the 'online' attribute will be present
> > in exactly the same place in sysfs and should trigger exactly the
> > same actions as before).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/cpu.c |   62 ++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
> 
> Very nice, I like reductions like this :)

Thanks!

So I guess the patches make sense to you overall?

Rafael


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