From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751250Ab1HDFD6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2011 01:03:58 -0400 Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.5]:34026 "EHLO vms173005pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770Ab1HDFDv (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2011 01:03:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:03:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown X-X-Sender: lenb@x980 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] idle patches for Linux 3.1 In-reply-to: Message-id: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Len Brown wrote: > > > > please pull from: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6.git idle-release > > As with the APEI tree, the commits are all recent and cannot have been > in -next. It's the last day before the merge window closes, please > tell me why I should take this in this cycle at all? I re-based this branch immediately before pushing in order to add "Acked-by" annotations. The cpuidle patches were in linux-next back in April. But they were on a branch with other patches that got deferred till 2012 b/c some folks were uneasy with me deleting so much code so suddenly. I cherry-picked some simple ones here b/c IBM asked me to in order to make their upcoming p-series cpuidle patches cleaner. The mrst pmu.c driver is new. MRST doesn't work without it. Of course, if you don't have CONFIG_X86_MRST=y, you don't care. Yes, this pull request is late, and if you skip it, life will still go on. You'll simply see the same patches wating for you in 10 weeks. On the other hand, some developers will have a happier summer if these get upstream now, and I'm here to support them if anything goes wrong. thanks, -Len