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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:43:24 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@...gle.com>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: Don't destroy/realloc policy/sysfs on hotplug/suspend

On 12 July 2014 08:36, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> On 07/10/2014 11:19 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>
>>
>> Please make sure you take care of these issues:
>> - suspend/resume
>> - hotplug
>> - module insert/remove
>
> Ok, I was just at the current code. Does cpufreq_unregister_driver() even
> really work correctly as it stands?
>
> It doesn't even seem to stop any of the governors/policies before it just
> set the cpufreq_driver pointer to NULL.
>
> So, technically my v2 patch doesn't even make anything worse when it comes
> to unregistering the cpufreq driver.

Are you really sure about this? I have tested this *myself* earlier..

subsys_interface_unregister() should take care of stopping/freeing governor
stuff..
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