[PATCH] cpufreq: Set policy to non-NULL only after all hotplug online work is done

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Tue Feb 25 09:40:54 EST 2014


On 25 February 2014 18:34, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> Well, that depends on what the current users expect it to look like initially.
> It should be initialized to the point in which all of them can handle it
> correctly.

Exactly.

> That's not going to work in at least some cases anyway, because for some types
> of HW we simply can't retrieve the current frequency in a non-racy way.

I agree. But this is all that we can guarantee here :)



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