On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:38:39AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:23:12 +0200 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cpufreq.c:cpufreq_get() no longer has any user. > > > > it's... also a really bad/buggy interface... frquency is a per cpu > property for one, and constantly changing (esp in a multi-core world) > even depending on what other parts of the system are doing.
... and such an assumption which would make it impossible to use the LCD controller on StrongARM-11x0 processors. This is precisely why we have CPUFREQ - so that hardware which needs to be re-timed when the CPU frequency changes can get notified of that event and take the appropriate action. It exists. It works. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
