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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, torvalds@transmeta.com
Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cpufreq: allow user to specify voltage
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:41:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030225004126.GA2477@brodo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030224225545.GA16991@elf.ucw.cz>

Hi Pavel, Hi Linus,

> Hi!
>
> This allows user to specify voltage manually. This gives me 40 extra
> minutes (1h50m -> 2h30m) on HP omnibook which appears to have broken
> bios tables. Please apply,
>
>								Pavel 


Please don't apply this patch -- for the following reasons:
- it only uses the deprecated, overloaded cpufreq proc_intf
- selecting the voltage within the policy (minimum and maximum frequency,
  mode of operation) is not where it should be done: you may want a
  different voltage at min-speed as at max-speed. So the frequency tables,
  or -even better- the amd-k7-specific table may be a better choice for
  this.
- selecting the voltage manually is something which is only valid for some
  very few drivers - so let's only export one sysfs file[*] for these
  drivers.

	Dominik

[*] sysfs is the _only_ recommended way to access cpufreq these days. 

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-24 22:55 cpufreq: allow user to specify voltage Pavel Machek
2003-02-25  0:41 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2003-02-25 18:03   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-25 18:24     ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-02-25 19:09       ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-25 19:28         ` John Clemens
2003-02-25 19:33           ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-28 21:16             ` [PATCH][RFC] " Dominik Brodowski
2003-03-06  0:29               ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-06  0:36               ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-06 20:42               ` Pavel Machek

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