Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:07:55 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/cpufreq: Warn user when powernow-k8 tries to fall back to acpi-cpufreq and it is unavailable. |
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 04:23:47PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I heard that the acpi-idle and intel-idle drivers do that and also heard that it was a hack. It doesn't look too ugly IMHO:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2671717265ae6e720a9ba5f13fbec3a718983b65
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