From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: cpufreq <cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove deprecated speedstep-centrino driver
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:49:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4827F6A6.8070909@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080511161845.GH15445@codemonkey.org.uk>
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Remove deprecated speedstep-centrino driver
> >
> > Not 100% sure whether there are machines out there that still need the
> > static Banias tables, Venkatesh?
>
> Hmm, if we decide to remove this for 2.6.27, I think we should
> get a printk into .26 on module load to say that it's going away.
> This likely has more valid use cases than the clockmod driver, so I
> think a heads-up to any potential users of it who still haven't seen
> the warning in the Kconfig might be a good idea.
>
The one function difference from cpufreq_acpi is that it doens't rely on
acpi. On my laptop of the time that was a useful distinction, but it
may have been more due to the shoddy state of acpi in Linux rather than
the BIOS.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 19:53 [PATCH] Remove deprecated speedstep-centrino driver Thomas Renninger
2008-05-11 16:18 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-12 7:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-05-15 10:58 ` Dominik Brodowski
2008-05-16 18:35 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
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