linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle document

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Date:   Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:11:16 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle document

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:48 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On 26-11-18, 14:11, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> >
> > Important information is missing from user/admin cpuidle documentation
> > available today, so add a new user/admin document for cpuidle containing
> > current and comprehensive information to admin-guide and drop the old
> > .txt documents it is replacing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst       |  603 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  Documentation/admin-guide/pm/working-state.rst |    1
> >  Documentation/cpuidle/core.txt                 |   23
> >  Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt                |   98 ----
> >  4 files changed, 604 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>
> Nice work Rafael. Minor nits below..

Thanks for the typo fixes.  The spellchecker I have here evidently doesn't work.

[cut]

> Maybe I missed, but I couldn't find any text that says what state 0, 1, ... N
> mean.

There is a paragraph on that above.

> Like which is the deepest idle state and which one is the shallowest.

But this part is missing, good catch!

Thanks,
Rafael