Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:05:14 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: eranian@hpl.hp.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add i386 idle notifier (take 3)
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:05:00 -0800
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Here is the latest version of the idle notifier for i386.
> This patch is against 2.6.20-rc1 (GIT). In this kernel, the idle
> loop code was modified such that the lowest level idle
> routines do not have loops anymore (e.g., poll_idle). As such,
> we do not need to call enter_idle() in all the interrupt handlers.
> 
> This patch also duplicates the x86-64 bug fix for a race condition
> as posted by Venkatesh Pallipadi from Intel.
> 
> changelog:
> 	- add idle notification mechanism to i386
> 

None of the above text is actually usable as a changelog entry.  We are
left wondering:

- why is this patch needed?

- what does it do?

- how does it do it?

The three questions which all changelogs should answer ;)
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