linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] cpuidle/powernv : Add Description for cpuidle state

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Message-Id: <20180604114500.3rlpuso5aftesnf5@aksadiga.ibm>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 17:15:00 +0530
From:   Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     Abhishek Goel <huntbag@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, rjw@...ysocki.net,
        daniel.lezcano@...aro.org, paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stewart@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cpuidle/powernv : Add Description for cpuidle state

On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:04:14PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Is this a new property ? I'm not fan of adding yet another of those
> silly arrays.
> 
> I would say this is the right time now to switch over to a node per
> state instead, as we discussed with Vaidy.

I posted  the node based device tree here :
skiboot patch :  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/923120/
kernel patch : https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/30/1146

Do you have any inputs for this design ?

> 
> Additionally, while doing that, we can provide the versioning mechanism
> I proposed so we can deal with state specific issues and erratas.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>