linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: Use a sane boot frequency when booting with a mismatched bootloader configuration

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Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:11:47 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Cc:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"cpufreq@...r.kernel.org" <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carlos Hernandez <ceh@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: Use a sane boot frequency when
 booting with a mismatched bootloader configuration

On 20 November 2013 20:29, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com> wrote:
> With the current governors that we have in upstream, the only one of
> my concern has been userspace governor, but based on your comment
> earlier in the thread, this is considered an non-issue since userspace
> must trigger transition. However, this does put the SoC at risk
> depending on distro and custom governors used.
>
> If the opinion is that we dont care about these, well.. I can end my
> complaints and depend on the stats to tell me if an unknown frequency
> was ever attempted for debug (even though I might personally not be
> too excited about it).

I wouldn't say that I was against this patch, but it looked like we could live
without it as well.. But I also feel that there is some amount of uncertainty
here and specially with userspace governor..

So, just see the patch which I have floated as replacement for few of the
patches we have been talking about..
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