Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:09:43 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules |
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* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:31:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > Nice fix! Where does this information come from? Distro module > > ordering magic? It's rather non-trivial. > > Pretty much. p4-clockmod is never the preferred option because > it does no voltage scaling. speedstep-centrino is now almost > entirely functionally replaced with acpi-cpufreq. The > powernow-k8 issue was a personal communication from davej.
I'm wondering whether that priority order should/could be expressed in the module space too - so that distros wouldnt have to replicate this. This is really a piece of information the kernel is best at maintaining.
> > (small style nit: the first line in the Makefile is overlong.) > > Seems to be 79 characters?
[ oops, my eye-guesstimator is failing me :) ]
Ingo
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