From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7B8C433DB for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4368A61601 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231642AbhA0Uei (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:34:38 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43802 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231264AbhA0Ueh (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:34:37 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6F9ACBA; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:33:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:33:46 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Doug Smythies Cc: 'Artem Bityutskiy' , "'Rafael J. Wysocki'" , 'Len Brown' , 'Linux PM Mailing List' Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/power/turbostat: fix compatibility with older kernels Message-ID: <20210127203346.GE8115@zn.tnic> References: <20210127132444.981120-1-dedekind1@gmail.com> <20210127185957.GD8115@zn.tnic> <002201d6f4e9$1e9f6c10$5bde4430$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <002201d6f4e9$1e9f6c10$5bde4430$@net> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:15:10PM -0800, Doug Smythies wrote: > It is supposed to work with old kernels. Here is a quote from Len from > [1] (2019.09.05) : Yeah, reportedly, this is the general strategy with tools in tools/. > Which is also what I do. I was also trying, so far without success, to > get a distro to relax its stringent, unnecessary, turbostat dependency > checking [2]. I see. > Yes agree, the information is still required. Yeah, lemme do a proper patch tomorrow. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg