diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpu-tegra.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpu-tegra.c
index e7ddcb2b5261..a36a03d3c9a0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpu-tegra.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpu-tegra.c
@@ -243,7 +243,6 @@ static int tegra_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	/* FIXME: what's the actual transition time? */
 	policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 300 * 1000;
 
-	policy->shared_type = CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ALL;
 	cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, cpu_possible_mask);
 
 	if (policy->cpu == 0)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c
index a108f66271ee..4e5b7fb8927c 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-cpu0.c
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ static int cpu0_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	 * share the clock and voltage and clock.  Use cpufreq affected_cpus
 	 * interface to have all CPUs scaled together.
 	 */
-	policy->shared_type = CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ANY;
 	cpumask_setall(policy->cpus);
 
 	cpufreq_frequency_table_get_attr(freq_table, policy->cpu);
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq.c
index e12dff601b8a..79a84860ea56 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/db8500-cpufreq.c
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ static int __cpuinit db8500_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	/* policy sharing between dual CPUs */
 	cpumask_setall(policy->cpus);
 
-	policy->shared_type = CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ALL;
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/omap-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/omap-cpufreq.c
index 97102b05843f..9128c07bafba 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/omap-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/omap-cpufreq.c
@@ -214,10 +214,8 @@ static int __cpuinit omap_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	 * interface to handle this scenario. Additional is_smp() check
 	 * is to keep SMP_ON_UP build working.
 	 */
-	if (is_smp()) {
-		policy->shared_type = CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ANY;
+	if (is_smp())
 		cpumask_setall(policy->cpus);
-	}
 
 	/* FIXME: what's the actual transition time? */
 	policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = 300 * 1000;
diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index 6bf3f2d12c90..a22944ca0526 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
 	cpumask_var_t		cpus;	/* Online CPUs only */
 	cpumask_var_t		related_cpus; /* Online + Offline CPUs */
 
-	unsigned int		shared_type; /* ANY or ALL affected CPUs
+	unsigned int		shared_type; /* ACPI: ANY or ALL affected CPUs
 						should set cpufreq */
 	unsigned int		cpu;    /* cpu nr of CPU managing this policy */
 	unsigned int		last_cpu; /* cpu nr of previous CPU that managed
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
 #define CPUFREQ_START			(3)
 #define CPUFREQ_UPDATE_POLICY_CPU	(4)
 
+/* Only for ACPI */
 #define CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_NONE (0) /* None */
 #define CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_HW	 (1) /* HW does needed coordination */
 #define CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ALL	 (2) /* All dependent CPUs should set freq */