[PATCH 189/228] cpufreq: dbx500: remove calls to cpufreq_notify_transition()

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Sep 20 14:56:34 EDT 2013


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org> 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: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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