linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 2/6] cpufreq: Remove cpufreq_frequency_get

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 21:06:26 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com>
Cc:	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@...il.com>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
	Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/6] cpufreq: Remove cpufreq_frequency_get_table()

On 2 June 2016 at 20:29, Javi Merino <javi.merino@....com> wrote:
> In 5a31d594a973 ("cpufreq: Allow freq_table to be obtained for offline
> CPUs") you did the opposite: don't use cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() because
> it won't give you the policy of a cpu that is offline.  Now you are
> arguing that we should go back to cpufreq_cpu_get() which implicitly
> calls cpufreq_cpu_get_raw().  Won't we hit the same issue that
> 5a31d594a973 was trying to prevent: that we can't get a freq_table for
> a cpu that is offline?

Yes, that should be fixed. Thanks for letting me know about it :)