linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V7 5/7] POWER/cpuidle: Generic POWER CPUIDLE driver supporting PSERIES.

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Date:	Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:01:02 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	michael@...erman.id.au, scottwood@...escale.com,
	srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 5/7] POWER/cpuidle: Generic POWER CPUIDLE driver
 supporting PSERIES.

On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 09:45 +0530, Deepthi Dharwar wrote:
> 'powerpc' would be very generic arch and would comprise of all platforms
> including embedded 32/64 bit to server 64 bit (similar to that of ARM).
> This driver does not intend to support complete powerpc arch, but just
> PSERIES and POWERNV platforms termed as 'POWER' processors. So to avoid
> confusion btw 'power mgmt' and 'POWER' archs, I have prefixed both the
> driver and file names with 'IBM'namely ibm-power-driver, cpuidle-ibm-power.

Why not book3s ? powerpc-book3s ?

That's what we use in other places to differenciate between the families

Ben.


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