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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:58:58 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] PM / OPP: Move away from RCU locking
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On 09-01-17, 15:57, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> I suppose this is one thing RCU was being used for, marking OPPs
> available and then having these "getter" APIs fail if the OPPs go
> away. But that was never right because the OPP could have been
> made unavailable after this function returned and things still
> wouldn't work.

Right, it was all so confusing with RCUs in OPP library :)

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viresh