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From: Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] cpufreq_get()
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:56:20PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:06:49PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> > I'm planing to add the cpufreq_get() in struct cpufreq_driver,
> > but in a hardware fashion, eventually replacing the name by
> > something more appropriate.
> 
> I appreciate this suggestion.

Fine.

> 
> >   Even for longrun, we
> >   can verify that the frequency is between min and max.
> 
> For ->range() drivers [I intend to rename ->setpolicy() to ->range()], we
> should leave the ->get() function optional in case the speed isn't
> detectable.

Anyway, this must be optional because the ACPI performance driver can't
detect speed...

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Ducrot Bruno

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