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From: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/6] cpufreq: powernv: Add sysfs attributes to show
 throttle stats
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:54:41 +0530
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> 
> And now that you have mentioned that to me, why shouldn't this stats
> directory be moved to debugfs ? :)
> 
> We are never going to perform a store here, isn't it ? And is just for
> information, nothing more.
> 

I would very much like to keep the throttle stats either in cpuX/cpufreq or
global cpufreq directory as these are populated by the platform cpufreq driver.

Today we don't have a requirement to a perform a store operation on these files
but we can have it in the future.

Thanks and Regards,
Shilpa