Re: cpufreq deprecation

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

>  > A scan of the lkml archives on theaimsgroup for cpufreq shows only this 
>  > message about deprecation.  Where was this discussed?
> 
> Probably cpufreq list around the time cpufreq was first merged to mainline 2.6.
> 
> I never wanted to really see the proc stuff hit 2.6 at all, but
> someone (maybe Dominik) suggested that as there were tools using it,
> (a multitude of cpu scaling daemons appeared), we should drag it into 2.6
> too, at least until the daemons caught up with the preferred
> interface.

I do not think changing interface in half of stable series is good
idea, but yes, it was market deprecated since day one. Keeping at
least read-only /proc/cpufreq would be nice. Or perhaps merging that
info into /proc/cpuinfo?
								Pavel
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