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Date:	Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:34:23 -0400
From:	Patrick McFarland <diablod3@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	davej@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: remove cpu hotplug bustification in cpufreq.

On Sunday 23 July 2006 14:12, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ Linus bangs his head against the wall until tears of blood course down
>   his face ]

I know how you feel.

> cpufreq (or at least ondemand) must DIE! And the people who wrote that
> crap should have red-hot pokers jammed into some very uncomfortable
> places.

You know what else must die? powernowd... which does exactly what the 
conservative governor does, but takes about a meg of memory to do it, and it 
doesn't even provide stuff like changing behavior based on ac/battery state 
or lm_sensors feedback.

-- 
Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
Inc, 1989

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