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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: powernow-k8-acpi driver
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:27:12 +0000
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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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 ?

		Dave