linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] arch_topology: Make cpu

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Message-ID: <20190307121400.cmgymfbphguvlaoo@queper01-lin>
Date:   Thu, 7 Mar 2019 12:14:03 +0000
From:   Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@....com>
To:     Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@...eaurora.org>,
        sudeep.holla@....com, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, will.deacon@....com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, morten.rasmussen@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, jeremy.linton@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] arch_topology: Make cpu_capacity sysfs node as
 ready-only

On Thursday 07 Mar 2019 at 10:57:50 (+0100), Juri Lelli wrote:
> If people think it's best to simply make this RO, I won't be against it.
> Just pointed out a conversation we recently had. Guess we could also
> make it RW again (properly) in the future if somebody complains.

Right, now is probably the time to give it a go before folks start
depending on it. And if I am wrong (and that happens more often than I'd
like unfortunately :-)) and there are users of that thing, then the
revert should be trivial.

Thanks,
Quentin