Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: Avoid attempts to create duplicate symbolic links

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 27-07-15, 15:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Say the subsys add callback runs for a CPU and it doesn't have a policy.
> If it is offline, we ignore it and the add callback won't be executed
> for it again.
> 
> In turn, if it is online, we create a policy for it and we should (right
> away) link the policy to all of the CPUs that were offline when the subsys add
> callback was called for them.  That's what we do today.
> 
> Is there anything missing in that?

So the code is working properly after your patch, but I was talking
on the lines of what Russell suggested.

We should play with the links only when we receive add-dev/remove-dev
from subsys callbacks. The exception to that will be the offline CPUs
for which add-dev is called before their policy existed.

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viresh