From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/cpufreq: Warn user when powernow-k8 tries to fall back to acpi-cpufreq and it is unavailable. Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:00:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20130118190021.GD4062@pd.tnic> References: <1357780161-30581-1-git-send-email-Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com> <20130111144940.GB21882@liondog.tnic> <20130111165054.GD10751@liondog.tnic> <4923C2DE085EEB4FAB1D375DD09D0BA6100CF170@sausexdag04.amd.com> <20130117115436.GA3853@pd.tnic> <20130118162347.GA31499@srcf.ucam.org> <20130118170755.GB4062@pd.tnic> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=alien8.de; s=alien8; t=1358535626; bh=K7Y77b9c3DbOW53uOmSNudDbQVaxRnCXA5/UQxdhOWU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:In-Reply-To; b=W3IWHr+maSn3CWESElYJ/3xMnaNoP2mT4M453B Wb/fLPvBXHVronsqaFN7ABCZzy2+FuK4iWGaJ8fllsDlsRGFJmR16F9bxRK0njdneHB DaMC27qFADzbEuTRQlCVcNmOm+UG2wxXSQBi7IetHbwySIL6jxKlITskv9S1s/ppkQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=alien8.de; s=alien8; t=1358535625; bh=K7Y77b9c3DbOW53uOmSNudDbQVaxRnCXA5/UQxdhOWU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:In-Reply-To; b=FugoWICMsrU7bsnY/1rxPlRpn79nMT6pTWs46E 58IBcByTnBb3sgPeRSn+JrJRAHcQHl4REfMUrySrucwgajtGDz9YQ2X8/9zvuWte8up TYA/k721HLXljdXAWiXkekms9UHjqDX3IvxNBas8RgQvShekhMoPsRKLAj8FMwy2HU= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130118170755.GB4062@pd.tnic> Sender: cpufreq-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Garrett Cc: "Gopalakrishnan, Aravind" , "rjw@sisk.pl" , Andre Przywara , "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andreas On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 06:07:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Just flip the link order? It's only the way it is because in the > > past we wanted to try hardware-specific drivers before more generic > > ones, and I don't think that's a concern in this case now. > > Yeah, I heard that the acpi-idle and intel-idle drivers do that and also > heard that it was a hack. It doesn't look too ugly IMHO: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2671717265ae6e720a9ba5f13fbec3a718983b65 Haha, this turns into one of those chicken-or-the-egg problems: >From : ################################################################################## # x86 drivers. # Link order matters. K8 is preferred to ACPI because of firmware bugs in early # K8 systems. ... Great. :( -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --