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Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:07:55 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org, nicolas.pitre@...aro.org,
	amit.kucheria@...aro.org, mathieu.poirier@...aro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org,
	pdsw-power-team@....com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cpufreq: Manage only online cpus

On 16 December 2012 18:34, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> On Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:20:08 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> cpufreq core doesn't manage offline cpus and if driver->init() has returned
>> mask including offline cpus, it may result in unwanted behavior by cpufreq core
>> or governors.
>>
>> We need to get only online cpus in this mask. There are two places to fix this
>> mask, cpufreq core and cpufreq driver. It makes sense to do this at common place
>> and hence is done in core.
>
> Well, this series makes sense to me, but I'd like to hear what the other people
> think.

That sounds great :)

Some more information for others about how i reached to these issues
is present here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/44
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