Re: [PATCH 00/14] cpufreq: create & use cpufreq_generic_init() routine

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Aug 21 2013 - 19:10:01 EST


On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 08:12:19 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Many CPUFreq drivers for SMP system (where all cores share same clock lines), do
> similar stuff in their ->init() part.
>
> This patch creates a generic routine in cpufreq core which can be used by these
> so that we can remove some redundant code. And later part of patchset makes
> other drivers use this infrastructure.
>
> Many drivers which weren't setting policy->cpus haven't been updated as they
> might have separate clocks for CPUs and setting all CPUs in policy->cpus may
> corrupt them..
>
> This is Sixth part of my cleanup work for CPUFreq, first five are (And
> obviously its rebased over them):

OK, so the plan for merging this will be that we'll put 1 into linux-next
and add 2 to it after a few days etc. to give people a chance to test one
set of changes before going to the next one.

> 1: cpufreq: Introduce cpufreq_table_validate_and_show()
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/8/263

So perhaps we can *try* to push the above for 3.12 if it doesn't breaks
stuff left and right.

Can you please resend it with all of the ACKs collected so far?

Thanks,
Rafael

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