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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk,
	"Alex Villací­s Lasso" <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About p4-clockmod breakage/removal
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:15:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080514091503.GA28678@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805132335.33118.lenb@kernel.org>

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:35:32PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:

> cpufreq is not designed to manage thermals, and putting p4_clockmod
> underneath it to manage thermals is a mistake.

Check processor_thermal.c. It explicitly interfaces with cpufreq in 
order to perform P state management.

> There is already a well known thermal throttling interface
> available via ACPI and it does not need p4_clockmod to run.
> Passive trip points work automatically even without cpufreq being present.
> If they do not, then we need to fix them.

You're assuming that the throttling interface is always exposed via 
ACPI. I've seen machines where this isn't the case.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <48246C3E.7010608@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
2008-05-14  0:48 ` About p4-clockmod breakage/removal Len Brown
2008-05-14  0:56   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14  3:35     ` Len Brown
2008-05-14  9:15       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-05-14 15:18         ` Len Brown
2008-05-14 23:11           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 11:18     ` Pavel Troller
2008-05-14 17:22       ` Len Brown
2008-05-15  1:55         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-05-14 11:36     ` Thomas Renninger
2008-05-14 11:42       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 12:49         ` Thomas Renninger
2008-05-14 12:56           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-05-14 15:28         ` Len Brown

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