linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/44] cpufreq: at32ap: Use generic cpufreq routines

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Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:10:42 +0200
From:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/44] cpufreq: at32ap: Use generic cpufreq routines

Around Mon 12 Aug 2013 11:37:45 +0530 or thereabout, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 10 August 2013 13:53, Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no> wrote:
>> Around Sat 10 Aug 2013 12:14:07 +0530 or thereabout, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>> Most of the CPUFreq drivers do similar things in .exit() and .verify() routines
>>> and .attr. So its better if we have generic routines for them which can be used
>>> by cpufreq drivers then.
>>>
>>> This patch uses these generic routines for this driver.
>>
>> Nice, thanks for cleaning up (-:
>>
>>> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
>>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
>>
>> Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
> 
> Thanks for your Ack but I have to NACK it :)
> 
> My patch was wrong.. It was based on the assumption that everybody who
> had implemented a .target() also implements a frequency table and exposes
> it.. And the generic routines I have exposed depend on that frequency table.
> And this cpufreq driver doesn't expose that freq table...

Right, my bad, I just looked at the code flow and saw that the generic path
did pretty much the same as the AVR32 implementation. Didn't consider the
table part as missing.

> And so this patch is dropped :(
> 

Ok, AVR32 driver should expose a frequency table then, which is quite simple.

-- 
mvh
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
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