linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: report driver's successful {un}registration

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:38:23 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arvind Chauhan <arvind.chauhan@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: report driver's successful {un}registration

On 10 July 2014 17:29, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:21:43PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> So that it appears in boot logs and we know cpufreq registered properly.
>
> So flip that logic: Don't say anything in the success case and issue an
> error only when it failed. Like the rest of the code does it.

The problem with that is: CPUFreq may not be compiled in at all and
we wouldn't know the difference between success and absence.

And so tried to add a print, like any other driver would do.
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