linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: governor: CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY

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Date:	Fri, 13 May 2016 08:43:48 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: governor: CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT never
 fails

On 12-05-16, 15:13, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> 
> None of the cpufreq governors currently in the tree will ever fail
> an invocation of the ->governor() callback with the event argument
> equal to CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_EXIT (unless invoked with incorrect
> arguments which doesn't matter anyway) and it wouldn't really
> make sense to fail it, because the caller won't be able to handle
> that failure in a meaningful way.
> 
> Accordingly, rearrange the code in the core to make it clear that
> this call never fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c |   35 ++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>

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viresh