Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:35:10 +0100 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: powernow-k8-acpi driver |
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On St 03-03-04 22:27:12, Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:54:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Lots of machines have broken PST tables, so current in-kernel driver > > refuses to works on them. Vendors do get ACPI tables right because > > apparently Windows use them ;-). So this driver tends to work. > > > > Comments? Could we get this into mainline? > > I really dislike the idea of having >1 driver for this. > Why can't we have a "use_acpi" module_param to switch to this ?
Well, that would probably not even link on kernel without ACPI...
We could make that functionality depend on CONFIG_ACPI, and allow runtime selection only if its defined... But those two drivers are pretty different just now and acpi-dependend chunk is pretty big. (It does funny stuff like polling for AC plug removal if we are in high-power state and battery would not handle that. Old driver simply refused to use high-power states on such machines.)
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