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Documentation: cpufreq: Update policy notifier documentation 

Update documentation with the recent policy notifier updates.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Viresh Kumar 2019-07-23 11:44:10 +05:30 committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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@ -57,19 +57,11 @@ transition notifiers.
2.1 CPUFreq policy notifiers
----------------------------
These are notified when a new policy is intended to be set. Each
CPUFreq policy notifier is called twice for a policy transition:
These are notified when a new policy is created or removed.
1.) During CPUFREQ_ADJUST all CPUFreq notifiers may change the limit if
they see a need for this - may it be thermal considerations or
hardware limitations.
2.) And during CPUFREQ_NOTIFY all notifiers are informed of the new policy
- if two hardware drivers failed to agree on a new policy before this
stage, the incompatible hardware shall be shut down, and the user
informed of this.
The phase is specified in the second argument to the notifier.
The phase is specified in the second argument to the notifier. The phase is
CPUFREQ_CREATE_POLICY when the policy is first created and it is
CPUFREQ_REMOVE_POLICY when the policy is removed.
The third argument, a void *pointer, points to a struct cpufreq_policy
consisting of several values, including min, max (the lower and upper