Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:57:07 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@gmail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
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        Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
        Tony Li <tony.li@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] x86, amd: add accessor for number of cores per
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 06:53:58AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> What does that have to do with 'hwmon' ? The current implementation in the
> driver may not be a good idea, and maybe for good reasons; I can not
> comment on that. However, you concluded from that implementation that
> hwmon, the subsystem, would not be able to support 'much finer grained
> measurements than system wide'. I would like to understand how you reached
> that conclusion.

Purely going on what this driver does here. I assumed it was
representative of things, if not then good.
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