From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove deprecated speedstep-centrino driver Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:49:58 +0100 Message-ID: <4827F6A6.8070909@goop.org> References: <20080511161845.GH15445@codemonkey.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080511161845.GH15445@codemonkey.org.uk> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: cpufreq-bounces@lists.linux.org.uk Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=m.gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk To: Dave Jones Cc: cpufreq 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