linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:47:39 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, steve.muckle@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] cpufreq: Sort policy->freq_table

On 08-06-16, 02:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 07, 2016 03:55:13 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > Hi Rafael,
> > 
> > I have spent some more time on this stuff and finally came out with a
> > very simple solution. I hope you will like it more than the previous
> > versions.
> > 
> > Instead of trying to sort the freq-table passed by the drivers, which
> > was complicated and would have broken some drivers for sure, this patch
> > just checks if the freq-table is sorted or not.
> > 
> > If it is sorted, then we just use a different set of helpers for it. The
> > table can be sorted in both ascending and descending orders now and
> > helpers are present for both the cases.
> 
> Well, that's something I was thinking about from the start. :-)
> 
> > All the patches are pushed here for testing in case anyone wants to try:
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm.git cpufreq/sorted-freq-table
> > 
> > V3->V4:
> > - Written from scratch really, completely different approach.
> 
> I'll look at the code later this week.

Hi Rafael,

Did you get a chance to look at these? Steve may be blocked on this :)

-- 
viresh