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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:15:38 +0530
From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: Avoid attempts to create duplicate symbolic
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On 29-07-15, 03:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> The rule is supposed to be "all of the present CPUs which do not own
> a policy should point to one, unless it doesn't exist".  The right
> approach is then to create links from them to a policy object as soon
> as we create one for them.  Waiting for something else to happen is just
> pointless and this approach covers both the offline and online CPUs, so
> I don't think that changing it would improve things really.

Ack.

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viresh