Hello Viresh,

Thanks for providing a proposal.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:22:55AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Hi Rafael/Eduardo,
> 
> Currently there is no callback for cpufreq drivers which is called once the
> policy is ready to be used. There are some requirements where such a callback is
> required.
> 
> One of them is registering a cooling device with the help of
> of_cpufreq_cooling_register(). This routine tries to get 'struct cpufreq_policy'
> for CPUs which isn't yet initialed at the time ->init() is called and so we face
> issues while registering the cooling device.
> 
> Because we can't register cooling device from ->init(), we need a callback that
> is called after the policy is ready to be used and hence ->usable() callback.
> 
> The first patch fixes few formatting issues, so that the third patch doesn't
> throw any checkpatch warnings. Second one fixes a potential bug in cpufreq-dt
> driver. Third one introduces ->usable() callback which will be used in the
> fourth patch.
> 
> Last three are fixes for cooling core, which may be applied separately by
> Eduardo if he wants. Sent them in this series as they were sort of connected
> with cpufreq in general.
> 
> Let me know if it still doesn't work properly.

For the series, the last three patches somehow breaks things. I didn't
not investigate the reason now, because, well, I think we should take
one thing at a time.

For the patches 1 to 4, I tried then and they do the trick. Now the
sequencing is correct between cpufreq-dt and cpu cooling. That means I
can also improve the thermal code by accepting the following patches:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5326991/
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5387161/

on top of the four first patches.

Cheers,

Eduardo Valentin

> 
> --
> viresh
> 
> Viresh Kumar (7):
>   cpufreq: Fix formatting issues in 'struct cpufreq_driver'
>   cpufreq-dt: pass 'policy->related_cpus' to
>     of_cpufreq_cooling_register()
>   cpufreq: Introduce ->usable() callback for cpufreq drivers
>   cpufreq-dt: register cooling device from ->usable() callback
>   cpu_cooling: Don't match min/max frequencies for all CPUs on cooling
>     register
>   cpu_cooling: don't iterate over all allowed_cpus to update cpufreq
>     policy
>   cpu_cooling: No need to check is_cpufreq_valid()
> 
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c  | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c     |  5 ++++
>  drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 44 ++++-------------------------------
>  include/linux/cpufreq.h       | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
> 
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