On 16 December 2012 18:34, Rafael J. Wysocki [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:20:08 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:

quoted

cpufreq core doesn't manage offline cpus and if driver->init() has returned
mask including offline cpus, it may result in unwanted behavior by cpufreq core
or governors.

We need to get only online cpus in this mask. There are two places to fix this
mask, cpufreq core and cpufreq driver. It makes sense to do this at common place
and hence is done in core.

Well, this series makes sense to me, but I'd like to hear what the other people
think.

That sounds great :)

Some more information for others about how i reached to these issues
is present here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/44