On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:04:52 PM Lan Tianyu wrote: > 2013/8/27 Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On 26 August 2013 20:53, Lan Tianyu <lantianyu1986@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So far as I know, it stores some user's config and cpufreq_update_policy() > >> bases on the data in the struct to start a new policy. Cpu thermal driver > >> （/driver/thermal/cpu_cooling.c）also will its value to update freq policy > >> when receive a cpufreq policy adjust notification. > > > > Yeah, but how are these different from policy->min/max/policy/governor? > > Why do we need to replicate this information? > > From my understanding.policy->min/max may be modified by some drivers > but the user_policy only store user space config and should not be changed > by other reason. :) Yes, that was the original idea IIRC, so separate user settings from stuff that may be changed internally by the kernel. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
