linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH Resend] driver/core: cpu: initialize opp table

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2014 15:24:47 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
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	Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.daniel@...sung.com>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH Resend] driver/core: cpu: initialize opp table

On 21 May 2014 15:18, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com> wrote:
>> Why do we need to return anything? Let that function have return type
>> 'void'?
>
>
> Hmm, don't we still need to throw error if DT has invalid OPP ?
> It doesn't may sense to me if no errors is returned and still CPUFreq fails
> later.

I wasn't sure if we should fail CPU's registration if it had bad OPPs.
Maybe just print a good message and go ahead. CPU is usable atleast :)

>> Also would it make sense to move this into it as well?
>>
>> cpu->dev.of_node = of_get_cpu_node(num, NULL);
>>
>
> I don't quite understand what you mean here ?

This piece of code was added by you earlier to register_cpu(). As this was
also DT specific, should I move this as well to the new routine we are creating?
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