Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: discard duplicate OPP additions

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 01:37:38 EST


On 15 May 2014 11:00, Inderpal Singh <inderpal.s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 15 May 2014 10:22, Inderpal Singh <inderpal.s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> What i am saying that "what if we are not going to re-use again ? "
>>
>> That's what I said:
>>
>> Yes, it will keep occupying some space but there is only one instance
>> of that per 'cluster' and is very much affordable instead of building it again..
>>
>> So, we may not need to free it.
>
> Its not just about cpufreq. There may be others using OPPs as well.
> For example devfreq.

And who is stopping these to use the already built ones? Exactly for
this reason I have been saying that lets not free OPPs already built.
Devfreq can simply use the ones built by cpufreq, even if cpufreq isn't
using it anymore.
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