From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:32:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20051204183239.GE14247@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051202181927.GD9766@wotan.suse.de> <20051202104320.A5234@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20051204164335.GB32492@isilmar.linta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051204164335.GB32492@isilmar.linta.de> 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=gmane.org+glkc-cpufreq=gmane.org@lists.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Venkatesh Pallipadi , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Dave Jones , cpufreq , linux-kernel On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > The patch below changes this to: > > Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If > > cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency > > will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures. > > Looks good to me -- however, might this affect userspace cpufreq tools? I'd They normally use /sys anyways. > vote for quite some time in -mm for this patch (i.e. only merge for 2.6.17) Actually it just changes behaviour back to older kernels (~2.6.10 or earlier) which always behaved like this. So it should be safe. -Andi