From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett 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 16:23:47 +0000 Message-ID: <20130118162347.GA31499@srcf.ucam.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:45905 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754310Ab3ARQXx (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:23:53 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130117115436.GA3853@pd.tnic> Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: Borislav Petkov , "Gopalakrishnan, Aravind" , "rjw@sisk.pl" , Andre Przywara , "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andreas On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:54:37PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > So, handoff to acpi-cpufreq still has some issues. When both are > built-in, the module_init functions turn into normal initcalls and > in that case, they're executed in link order and it can happen that > powernowk8_init() runs before acpi_cpufreq_init(). 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org