From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ragu Subject: cpufreq dir under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu* is not present for online=0 cpus Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:49:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: cpufreq-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org I am learning android and finding that the cpufreq dir under /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu* is not present when online=0 for a cpu. Why are we hiding those directory and its content when a cpu goes offline/power collapse ? Because of the above, the cpu usage is not very accurate from some tools which reads data from sysfs. Thanks, Ragu