Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:00:21 +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 06:07:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > 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
Haha, this turns into one of those chicken-or-the-egg problems:
From <drivers/cpufreq/Makefile>:
################################################################################## # x86 drivers. # Link order matters. K8 is preferred to ACPI because of firmware bugs in early # K8 systems. ...
Great. :(
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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