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From: "Doug Smythies" <dsmythies@telus.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 07/12] tools/power turbostat: modprobe msr, if needed
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 07:29:28 -0700
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On 2015.04.18 17:50 Len Brown wrote:

> Some distros (Ubuntu) ship the msr driver as a module.
> If turbosat is run as root on those systems, and discovers
> that there is no /dev/cpu/cpu0/msr, it will now "modprobe msr"
> for the user.

This is a great addition. Thanks so much.
Why? Because, myself, I always forget to do "modprobe msr" first.