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4Device Frequency Scaling
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7Introduction
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10This framework provides a standard kernel interface for Dynamic Voltage and
11Frequency Switching on arbitrary devices.
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13It exposes controls for adjusting frequency through sysfs files which are
14similar to the cpufreq subsystem.
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16Devices for which current usage can be measured can have their frequency
17automatically adjusted by governors.
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19API
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22Device drivers need to initialize a :c:type:`devfreq_profile` and call the
23:c:func:`devfreq_add_device` function to create a :c:type:`devfreq` instance.
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25.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/devfreq.h
26.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/devfreq-event.h
27.. kernel-doc:: drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
28        :export:
29.. kernel-doc:: drivers/devfreq/devfreq-event.c
30        :export:
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