From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751887Ab3KTFYg (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:24:36 -0500 Received: from mail-qe0-f46.google.com ([209.85.128.46]:61917 "EHLO mail-qe0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751738Ab3KTFYe (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:24:34 -0500 Message-ID: <528C478C.1070901@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:54:28 +0530 From: viresh kumar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nishanth Menon CC: Shawn Guo , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Carlos Hernandez Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: Use a sane boot frequency when booting with a mismatched bootloader configuration References: <1384568535-26611-1-git-send-email-nm@ti.com> <20131116134445.GI11014@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <528A27F8.3070402@ti.com> <20131118155753.GU11014@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <528A4340.3020508@ti.com> <20131119022133.GB18434@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <528B72C1.5060006@ti.com> <528B7CE5.5040502@ti.com> <528B884C.7070908@ti.com> <528BA355.4040008@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <528BA355.4040008@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 19 November 2013 11:13 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote: > we depend on the first transition to take us to a sane configuration - > but we cannot predict when and if it will happen. I really believe that it happens fairly quickly, isn't it? We straight away start the sampling of load and withing few milliseconds we must be fixing the freq.. We aren't going to stay for the unknown, might be unstable, freq for ever..