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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/7] cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
    On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:31:19 +0530 Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org
    wrote,
    > On 17 July 2013 17:01, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
    > > First off, I'm not sure how many applications actually use it and I
    > > think, if any, they should be able cope with the attribute not
    > > being present.
    > >
    > > Of course, if it turns out that yes, there are applications using
    > > it and no, they cannot cope with the missing attribute, we'll need
    > > to address this. That said such applications wouldn't work with
    > > earlier kernels in which that attribute wasn't present at all, so I
    > > suppose this is really unlikely.
    > >
    > > So, do whichever makes more sense to you: Design things to preserve
    > > the old behavior (which is sightly confusing) or design them to
    > > expose the attribute if the feature is actually supported and be
    > > prepared to address the (unlikely) case when some hypothetical
    > > applications break because of that.
    >
    > Okay. Its better to keep it the way Lukasz designed it in his last
    > patchset.

    To be 100% sure - we export boost only when supported (as proposed at v5).


    --
    Best regards,

    Lukasz Majewski

    Samsung R&D Institute Poland (SRPOL) | Linux Platform Group


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