Re: [PATCH 00/11] cpufreq: Keep policy->freq_table sorted

[Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>]

On 02-06-16, 22:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Quoting from this very cover letter "This change allows us to remove
> the (duplicate) sorted-freq-table, which
> was added by following series:", so why to add it in the first place?

Okay, that's fine.

> Besides, there already is a number of tables (per policy which in some
> important cases pretty much means per CPU) in cpufreq that contain
> more-or-less the same information.  For example, if acpi-cpufreq is in
> use, the ACPI layer has a table coming from _PSS, the driver creates
> freq_table to pass to the core and there is an additional one for the
> stats.  And your series adds one more just so it is ordered.  Come on.

Of course.

> If you want to clean that up, fine, but please don't do that in a
> hurry.  Let's talk about it a bit more without sending any more
> patches in that area for the time being.

Okay, I will send all the fixes that you can apply cleanly now in a
separate set.

So, yeah, I get your overall concern. What about this:
- A single patchset to make sure the current policy->freq_table is
  always sorted in Ascending order of frequencies.
- And this sorting will be done per policy only when the policy is
  first created.
- Which would eventually mean merging this series with the [v2 0/2]
  one.

Will that work ?

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viresh