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Date:	Thu, 16 Jul 2015 02:32:14 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org>,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: Properly handle errors from cpufreq_init_policy()

On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 04:50:23 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 08-07-15, 12:17, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > I tried these patches without the earlier "cpufreq: Initialize the
> > governor again while restoring policy" patch.
> > 
> > The result is that the error when bringing a cpu online is with flagged
> > up with a kernel message:
> > 
> >   cpufreq: cpufreq_add_dev: Failed to initialize policy for cpu: 1 (-16)
> > 
> > and afterwards, the sysfs entries that I was poking and causing the
> > crash aren't present. So looks like this patch has done what we want,
> > and cleaned things up after an error. So...
> > 
> > Tested-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@...aro.org>
> > 
> > Thanks for the prompt fix.
> 
> And thanks for your help in getting these tested :)

Both queued up for 4.3, thanks!


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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