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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:00:45 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpabhatppc@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: powernv: Register the driver with reboot notifier

On 22 August 2014 08:18, Preeti U Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> At the moment this looks like the best way forward. We need to do this
> cleanly by ensuring that we stop the governors and then call into the
> driver to deal with the cpu frequency in its own way during reboot. The
> best way to do this would be by calling this routine. Either this or
> cpufreq_suspend() should be called in the reboot path generically. The
> latter might not be an enticing option for other platforms.

Its not that I am doubting if this will work or not. But this Hack is using
routines not meant for this purpose. And that being a core routine,
things aren't that straightforward anymore.

@Rafael: Ping!!
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