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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules

    * 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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