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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2013-02-21 16:16:55 +0100
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2013-02-22 10:07:30 +0100
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Conflicts: include/linux/ssb/ssb_driver_gige.h Also resolves a logical merge conflict in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/- bgmac.c due to change of an API.
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@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ policy->governor must contain the "default policy" for
For setting some of these values, the frequency table helpers might be
helpful. See the section 2 for more information on them.
+SMP systems normally have same clock source for a group of cpus. For these the
+.init() would be called only once for the first online cpu. Here the .init()
+routine must initialize policy->cpus with mask of all possible cpus (Online +
+Offline) that share the clock. Then the core would copy this mask onto
+policy->related_cpus and will reset policy->cpus to carry only online cpus.
+
1.3 verify
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