Some firmwares do not put the CPU into idle mode themselves, but still
need to be informed that the CPU is about to enter idle mode before this
happens. Add a prepare_idle() operation to the firmware_ops structure to
handle such cases.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acour...@nvidia.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h
index 15631300c238..2c9f10df7568 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/firmware.h
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
*/
struct firmware_ops {
/*
+ * Inform the firmware we intend to enter CPU idle mode
+ */
+ int (*prepare_idle)(void);
+ /*
* Enters CPU idle mode
*/
int (*do_idle)(void);
--
1.8.5.3
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