Re: [Query] CPUFreq: Why do we need policy->user_policy?

[Lan Tianyu]

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.  :)

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Best regards
Tianyu Lan
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