linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Remove unnecessary use of policy->shared

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Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:37:29 +0530
From:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:	<linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	<rjw@...k.pl>, <Steve.Bannister@....com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: Remove unnecessary use of policy->shared_type

Viresh,

On Friday 01 February 2013 02:22 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> On Friday 01 February 2013 01:32 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> On 1 February 2013 13:03, Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
>> wrote:
>>> I am not talking about just notifiers. This is for external users who
>>> has subscribed for notifiers. The point is whether the core CPUFReq
>>> gets updated without that flag for all affected CPU.
>>
>> Yes, its safe. Follow this thread, yesterday i explained this to
>> Tomasz Figa:
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg221629.html
>>
> That part was very clear to me Viresh. Anyway thanks for the link.
>  From what I read so far, it might just work but I would want to
> try it out before acking the approach.
>
You are correct. Sorry for oversight on your initial point about the
usage of the flag. When I added that flag, I just went by the
description thinking the cpufreq core booking and stat updates
use the flag. Its not the case.

Thanks for the fix. For the patch,
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
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