From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757917AbcBCQZB (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:25:01 -0500 Received: from e28smtp04.in.ibm.com ([125.16.236.4]:43304 "EHLO e28smtp04.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933149AbcBCQY6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:24:58 -0500 X-IBM-Helo: d28relay01.in.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;linux-pm@vger.kernel.org;linux-api@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <56B229C9.4010909@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:54:41 +0530 From: Shilpasri G Bhat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Viresh Kumar , rjw@rjwysocki.net, Gautham R Shenoy CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, pc@us.ibm.com, anton@samba.org, shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/6] cpufreq: powernv: Add sysfs attributes to show throttle stats References: <1454442102-1229-1-git-send-email-shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1454442102-1229-7-git-send-email-shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160203082700.GZ31828@vireshk> <56B1BD71.2050403@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20160203090357.GA31828@vireshk> <20160203120258.GA32294@in.ibm.com> <20160203140600.GG3469@vireshk> In-Reply-To: <20160203140600.GG3469@vireshk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable x-cbid: 16020316-0013-0000-0000-000009F828C1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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