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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 21:03:34 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] CPUFREQ: ondemand/conservative: deprecate
 sampling_rate{min,max}
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On Tue,  3 Feb 2009 17:46:41 +0100 Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote:

>  static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_max(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
>  {
> +	printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: conservative sampling_rate_max "
> +	       "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n", current->comm);
>  	return sprintf (buf, "%u\n", MAX_SAMPLING_RATE);
>  }

I'd have thought that the user-irritation risk here is pretty high.

Would it make sense to throttle these or to make them once-per-boot
or something?