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Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:39:24 +0200
From:	Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@...sung.com>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@...com>,
	"cpufreq@...r.kernel.org" <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@...sung.com>,
	"l.majewski@...ess.pl" <l.majewski@...ess.pl>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@...aro.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Myungjoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] cpufreq: Store cpufreq policies in a list

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:51:27 +0200 Viresh Kumar wrote,
> On 4 July 2013 14:20, Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski@...sung.com> wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> 
> > @@ -2056,6 +2058,7 @@ int cpufreq_unregister_driver(struct
> > cpufreq_driver *driver)
> > subsys_interface_unregister(&cpufreq_interface);
> > unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&cpufreq_cpu_notifier);
> >
> > +       list_del(&cpufreq_policy_list);
> 
> You can't delete the list this way... You must have passed the list
> entry you wanted to delete. More precisely link from the struct
> cpufreq_policy.

Yes. I shouldn't delete statically defined head of the list. Thanks for
spotting.

> 
> Over that, it shouldn't be done at the time of unregistering cpufreq
> driver but as and when cpus are removed and _cpu_remove_dev
> is called.

OK, I will iterate the list at __cpufreq_remove_dev() and remove each
of them there.

-- 
Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

Samsung R&D Institute Poland (SRPOL) | Linux Platform Group
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