On 26 February 2014 03:59, Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net> wrote: > Yes, what exactly do we need it for in the core?
Its probably there to make things faster. We cache the value so that we don't go to the hardware to read/calculate that again. Isn't it? And we need to know current freq on many occasions. One of that is that many drivers need to know the relation between current and new freq before they can make the change. As they might need to play with volt regulators before or after the freq change. Also it is used mainly in our loops_per_jiffiy calculations. -- 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/
