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Date:   Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:18:09 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To:     Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
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On 19-02-21, 09:44, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> On Friday 19 Feb 2021 at 10:28:23 (+0530), Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > The very core routines (cpufreq_freq_transition_end() and
> > cpufreq_driver_fast_switch()) of the cpufreq core call
> > arch_set_freq_scale() today and this isn't going to change anytime
> > soon. If something gets changed there someone will need to see other
> > parts of the kernel which may get broken with that.
> > 
> 
> Yes, but it won't really be straightforward to notice this breakage if
> that happens, so in my opinion it was worth to keep that condition.

Right, but chances of that happening are close to zero right now. I
don't see any changes being made there in near future and so as we
agreed, lets leave it as is.

Btw, thanks for your feedback, it was indeed very valuable.

-- 
viresh