Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: tegra: don't error target() when suspended

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On 11/20/2013 08:44 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 21 November 2013 02:36, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> d4019f0a92ab "cpufreq: move freq change notifications to cpufreq core"
>> added code to the cpufreq core to print an error if a cpufreq driver's
>> .target() function returned an error. This exposed the fact that Tegra's
>> cpufreq driver returns an error when it is ignoring requests due to the
>> system being suspended.
>>
>> Modify Tegra's .target() function not to return an error in this case;
>> this prevents the error prints. The argument is that since the suspend
>> hook can't and doesn't inform the cpufreq core when its requests will
>> be ignored, there's no way for the cpufreq core to squelch them, so it's
>> not an error for the requests to keep coming. This change make the Tegra
>> driver consistent with how the Exynos handles the same situation. Note
>> that s5pv210-cpufreq.c probably suffers from this same issue though.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks..
> 
>> ---
>> This is a fix for 3.13.
>>
>> Commit d4019f0a92ab also failed to update the Tegra pm_notifier hook to
>> emit cpufreq notifications. That hook calls the target() implementation
>> directly, which used to emit the notifications. However, now that the
>> notifications are made outside of target(), they no longer occur when
>> target() is called directly. I'm not sure if this is an issue or not?
> 
> Hmm.. Yes and no.. Frequency after this point will not be in sync with
> cpufreq core, but at the same time after resume cpufreq core will check
> this out and get the correct frequency..

OK, sounds like I should ignore this issue then?
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