linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Allow accessing freq

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Message-ID: <1701322.hsK9gPMk5I@vostro.rjw.lan>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:10:43 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	rui.zhang@...el.com, edubezval@...il.com, javi.merino@....com,
	Pi-Cheng Chen <pi-cheng.chen@...aro.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Allow accessing freq_table for offline CPUs

On Thursday, July 09, 2015 10:43:56 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 09-07-15, 02:40, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > The above sentence is completely unclear to anyone unfamiliar with the
> > code in question.
> > 
> > The fix is to access the policy data structure for the given CPU directly
> > (which also returns a valid policy for offline CPUs), but the policy
> > itself has to be active (meaning that at least one CPU using it is online)
> > for the frequency table to be returned.
> > 
> > Right?
> 
> Yeah..

Applied with minor tweaks to the subject & changelog, thanks!


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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