On 2014/12/2 12:38, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 30 November 2014 at 13:53, Wang Weidong <wangweido...@huawei.com> wrote: >> No, there are not utilities and scripts relying on it. > > How can you be so sure about it ? There might be scripts/utils you > aren't aware of > and are depending on this.. > >> I just confuse that: >> If the policy->min and policy-max is changed while it shows all available >> freqs >> though scaling_available_frequencies. I can't set all freq-steps, only >> [policy->min, policy->max]. >> why should it show all the available freqs. > > That's not the only purpose of those frequencies there. It shows list > of all possible > frequencies. Now, there can be issues if those lists are updated. > > Suppose somebody just played with the min/max frequency, now how would anybody > come to know about the frequencies available above/below the > user-max/min frequency? > > So as you mentioned in your example above: User space would never know about > > 1.05 Ghz and 2.3GHz anymore.. Unless you remember it or save it somewhere. >
Nice, Thanks for your reply. Got it. Wang, Regards >> Although, it doesn't impact on us. So just ignore the patch#2. :) > > Probably yes. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
