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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 2/7] cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
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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.


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