Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:32:39 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo |
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > The patch below changes this to: > > Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If > > cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency > > will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures. > > Looks good to me -- however, might this affect userspace cpufreq tools? I'd
They normally use /sys anyways.
> vote for quite some time in -mm for this patch (i.e. only merge for 2.6.17)
Actually it just changes behaviour back to older kernels (~2.6.10 or earlier) which always behaved like this. So it should be safe.
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