linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: cpufreq: Frequencies are in Hz, not kHz

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Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2023 10:41:24 -0800
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     rafael@...nel.org, viresh.kumar@...aro.org, corbet@....net
Cc:     "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: cpufreq: Frequencies are in Hz, not kHz

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 10:11 AM Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> Though the documentation for the cpufreq files has always specified
> that the frequencies are in kHz, they simply aren't. For as long as I
> can remember looking at these files they've always been in straight
> Hz. Fix the docs.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> ---
> NOTE: git blame shows that this has been wrong since before the kernel
> switched to git. I've tagged the first git commit as Fixes, but we
> could easily just drop the Fixes tag if that's a better way to go.
>
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Ugh. Please ignore this patch. Somehow I read these numbers many times
and convinced myself that it was Hz enough to actually post a patch.
...but then someone corrected me and pointed out that I'm utterly and
completely wrong. Sorry for the noise.

-Doug