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From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] PM / OPP: Error out on failing to add static OPPs
 for v1 bindings
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:27:08 +0800
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 12:15:13PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 08-12-16, 14:39, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > Yes, it's the best effort.
> 
> That may get a risky IMO. What if we fail to add all OPPs except the last one,
> which selects the highest frequency?

That's the same case when Performance governor is selected, and should
be guaranteed safe, shouldn't it?

> We will surely overheat most of the SoCs
> and burn them out.

IMO, the problem is on OPP table.  Every entry in the table should be
safe for running for any time.

Shawn