[PATCH 206/228] cpufreq: sa11x0: remove calls to cpufreq_notify_transition()

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Sep 13 11:54:24 EDT 2013


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:32:32PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Most of the drivers do following in their ->target_index() routines:
> 
> 	struct cpufreq_freqs freqs;
> 	freqs.old = old freq...
> 	freqs.new = new freq...
> 
> 	cpufreq_notify_transition(policy, &freqs, CPUFREQ_PRECHANGE);
> 
> 	/* Change rate here */
> 
> 	cpufreq_notify_transition(policy, &freqs, CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE);
> 
> This is replicated over all cpufreq drivers today and there doesn't exists a
> good enough reason why this shouldn't be moved to cpufreq core instead.
> 
> Earlier patches have added support in cpufreq core to do cpufreq notification on
> frequency change, this one removes it from this driver.
> 
> Some related minor cleanups are also done along with it.
> 
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>

Shouldn't this patch set CPUFREQ_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION somewhere?



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