Re: [RFC V2 1/6] cpufreq: Replace "max_transition_latency" with "dynamic_switching"

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is no limitation in the ondemand or conservative governors which
> disallow the transition_latency to be greater than 10 ms.
>
> The max_transition_latency field is rather used to disallow automatic
> dynamic frequency switching for platforms which didn't wanted these
> governors to run.
>
> Replace max_transition_latency with a boolean (dynamic_switching) and
> check for transition_latency == CPUFREQ_ETERNAL along with that. This
> makes it pretty straight forward to read/understand now.

Well, using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL for that on the driver side is still not
particularly straightforward IMO, so maybe add a
"no_dynamic_switching" to the driver structure and set it to "true"
for the one driver in question?

Thanks,
Rafael