Re: [PATCH 1/8] acpi-cpufreq: fix multicore bug

[Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:38:03PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>  > acpi-cpufreq.c |   98 
>  > +++++++++------------------------------------------------
>  > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
>  > 
>  > Fix a problem on a multicore processors. 
>  > 
>  > Signed-off: Denis Sadykov <denis.m.sadykov@intel.com>
>  > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi at intel.com>
>  > Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy at intel.com>
> 
> Can I get a little more verbose description for the changelog please ?
> I think I understand whats going on here, but I'd like to understand
> it more than "fix a bug" when I'm browsing the history 6 months from now.

This is a fix for broken BIOSes, which report processors as hardware independent by
not giving an optional _PSD object in CPU device. Without this patch we will not be
able to set same frequency on every other processor (although it is already
set by a shared state from first processor), so notifications will be missing.

> Also, is there any way you can make thunderbird not send mails
> with format=flowed in your Content-type: ?  mutt respects this attribute
> and handily word-wraps your diffs. (Which doesn't matter for applying
> them, but it does make it a pain when reviewing).
Set row width to fixed 80, don't know if it helps...

Thanks,
Alex.