From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, nm@ti.com,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, sboyd@codeaurora.org,
Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com,
Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] cpufreq: mvebu: Use generic platdev driver
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:26:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160425125605.GG6104@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6893237.FoNPbfW3DC@wuerfel>
On 25-04-16, 14:53, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 25 April 2016 08:30:41 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> I realize that the ordering is fixed through the way that the kernel
> is linked, my worry is more about someone changing the code in some
> way because it's not obvious from reading the code that the
> dependency exists. If either the armada_xp_pmsu_cpufreq_init()
> initcall gets changed so it does not always get called, or the
> cpufreq_dt_platdev_init() initcall gets changed so it comes a little
> earlier, things will break.
cpufreq-dt will just error out in that case, because it wouldn't find
any OPPs registered to the OPP-core. It *shouldn't* crash and if it
does, then we have a problem to fix.
> > The other thing that can happen is that armada_xp_pmsu_cpufreq_init()
> > call can fail. In that case, most of the times cpufreq-dt ->init()
> > will fail as well, so even that is fine for me.
> >
> > And, so I think we can keep this patch as is.
>
> What are the downsides of moving armada_xp_pmsu_cpufreq_init()
> into drivers/cpufreq?
More special code :)
--
viresh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-25 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-21 8:58 [PATCH 00/10] cpufreq: Get rid of cpufreq-dt's platform data Viresh Kumar
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 01/10] PM / OPP: Propagate the error returned by _find_opp_table() Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:14 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 02/10] PM / OPP: Add missing doc style comments Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:15 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 03/10] PM / OPP: dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus() doesn't depend on CONFIG_OF Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:16 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 04/10] PM / OPP: Relocate dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus() Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:22 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 05/10] PM / OPP: Mark shared-opp for non-dt case Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:21 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 06/10] PM / OPP: Add dev_pm_opp_get_sharing_cpus() Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:21 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-27 2:59 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-04-21 8:58 ` [PATCH 07/10] cpufreq: dt: Identify cpu-sharing for platforms without operating-points-v2 Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:27 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-25 9:36 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-04-25 21:45 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-25 21:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-04-25 21:56 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-25 22:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-04-21 8:59 ` [PATCH 08/10] mvebu: Use dev_pm_opp_set_sharing_cpus() to mark OPP tables as shared Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:24 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:59 ` [PATCH 09/10] cpufreq: dt: Kill platform-data Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:26 ` Stephen Boyd
2016-04-21 8:59 ` [PATCH 10/10] cpufreq: mvebu: Use generic platdev driver Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-25 3:00 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-04-25 12:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-25 12:56 ` Viresh Kumar [this message]
2016-04-25 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-25 15:29 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-04-25 15:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-25 15:55 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-04-21 20:10 ` [PATCH 00/10] cpufreq: Get rid of cpufreq-dt's platform data Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-04-22 3:16 ` [PATCH] PM / OPP: -ENOSYS is applicable only to syscalls Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 12:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-04-22 14:59 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-04-27 2:47 ` Viresh Kumar
2016-04-22 22:44 ` [PATCH 00/10] cpufreq: Get rid of cpufreq-dt's platform data Arnd Bergmann
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