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On 4/19/2017 8:01 AM, Kees Cook wrote:

>>>
>>> Arjan said it would break powertop, IIRC.
>>
>> So we broke it in 4.11?  That doesn't seem to sound reasonable, how are
>> you getting away with that?  :)
>
> tglx seemed to think that the same information was available elsewhere?

tglx was working on patches to make the same information available elsewhere *in the future*.

unless you also backport that work (and wait for powertop to release/etc)...
just backporting the interface break without backporting the new interface... leaves things stuck.