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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
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Subject: Re: [patch] fix sparc64 cpu_idle()
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Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> 
> It's not flexible to enforce  'void cpu_idle(void)'  all over. What If
> someday someone would want  to return value for some arch.
> 

May be you are right, but i can't imagine what could be done
after return from cpu_idle() except panic(). cpu_idle() is the
last call in start_kernel().

Oleg.