Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752646AbbG2OVz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:21:55 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:34593 "EHLO mail-pa0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752252AbbG2OVy (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:21:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:51:48 +0530 From: Viresh Kumar To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: Avoid attempts to create duplicate symbolic links Message-ID: <20150729142148.GF5100@linux> References: <1660815.CyKx9SEI9c@vostro.rjw.lan> <4080510.IQ60sVQvbL@vostro.rjw.lan> <20150727143935.GB18535@linux> <2112385.YuDJ7h1x56@vostro.rjw.lan> <20150729091136.GN7557@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 19 On 29-07-15, 15:57, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > In practice, this means a cpufreq driver registration done in parallel > with CPU hotplug. Not necessarily. Also consider the case where cpufreq driver is already working for a set of CPUs. And a new set of CPUs (that will share the policy) are getting physically added to the system. Anyway, even if there is no problem at all, I do agree with Russell that it will be better to do operations on behalf of the devices only when we are requested for those devices. -- viresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/