Re: [PATCH V2 5/7] cpufreq: Merge cpufreq_offline_prepare/finish routines

[Saravana Kannan]

On 02/03/2016 06:02 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> The offline routine was separated into two halves earlier by
> 'commit 1aee40ac9c86 ("cpufreq: Invoke __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish()
> after releasing cpu_hotplug.lock");.
>
> And the reasons cited were, race issues between accessing policy's sysfs
> files and policy kobject's cleanup.
>
> That race isn't valid anymore, as we don't remove the policy & its
> kobject completely on hotplugs, but do that from ->remove() callback of
> subsys framework.
>
> These two routines can be merged back now.
>
> This is a preparatory step for the next patch, that will enforce
> policy->rwsem lock around __cpufreq_governor() routines STOP/EXIT
> sequence.

Is this stale text? Seems like this is now done in the *previous* patch?

-Saravana


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