Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755840Ab3IZGhn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 02:37:43 -0400 Received: from mail-qe0-f41.google.com ([209.85.128.41]:51608 "EHLO mail-qe0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754852Ab3IZGhm (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 02:37:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <524368CF.4030803@linaro.org> References: <5b758e21eeb97f5f68191819c0820673692b6b75.1379779777.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> <524368CF.4030803@linaro.org> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:07:41 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] cpuidle: change governor from within cpuidle_replace_governor() From: Viresh Kumar To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Lists linaro-kernel , Patch Tracking , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 18 On 26 September 2013 04:20, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > Actually I am wondering if all this stuff is not over-engineered. > > There are 2 governors, each of them suits for a specific kernel config, > periodic tick or tickless system. > > menu => tickless system > periodic => periodic tick system > > IMHO, all the code with rating checking and so do not really makes > sense. Wouldn't make sense to remove this code ? I am a newbie here, really can't think of all side effects of this :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/