linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: Set policy->related

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:11:06 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	rjw@...k.pl, inderpal.singh@...aro.org
Cc:	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org, robin.randhawa@....com,
	Steve.Bannister@....com, Liviu.Dudau@....com,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: Set policy->related_cpus to atleast policy->cpus

On 29 January 2013 10:09, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
> With the addition of following patch, related_cpus is required to be set by
> cpufreq platform drivers:
>
> commit c1070fd743533efb54e98142252283583f379190
> Author: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> Date:   Mon Jan 14 13:23:04 2013 +0000
>
>     cpufreq: Simplify cpufreq_add_dev()
>
> Because this change is required by all platform drivers, why not do this in the
> core itself. Hence, this patch is an attempt towards fixing all broken drivers.
>
> From now on, platforms don't really need to set related_cpus from their init()
> routines, as the same work is done by core too.
>
> If platform driver needs to set the related_cpus mask with some additional cpus,
> other than cpus present in policy->cpus, they are free to do it as we aren't
> overriding anything.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---
> Inderpal,
>
> Can you please add your tested-by for this patch? And this will require you to
> drop your patch for exynos-cpufreq.c :)

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