linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] CPUFreq Fixes for 3.10-rc2

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Message-ID: <1603621.USQfKr7LjW@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Sat, 18 May 2013 11:16:13 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robin.randhawa@....com,
	Steve.Bannister@....com, Liviu.Dudau@....com,
	charles.garcia-tobin@....com, arvind.chauhan@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] CPUFreq Fixes for 3.10-rc2

On Saturday, May 18, 2013 07:45:45 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 18 May 2013 05:10, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > Well, I actually meant "can you please verify your belief?". :-)
> >
> > And that's because I'm wondering why the zero-day build testing doesn't
> > catch this problem.  Apparently, it doesn't build .configs with cpufreq
> > governors configured as modules, although I believe it does test
> > "make allmodconfig" for a couple of architectures at least.  What gives?
> 
> My assumption was wrong. Actually cpufreq_governor.c is never compiled
> as module, but cpufreq_ondemand is...
> 
> And this routine isn't used from cpufreq_ondemand but cpufreq_governor..
> 
> But we were lucky that we didn't get a error here and EXPORT_SYMBOL
> is still required :)

Although not necessarily 3.10 material I suppose?

Rafael


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