linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

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Message-ID: <20070424211253.GG23598@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:12:53 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	William Heimbigner <icxcnika@....tar.cc>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:03:23PM +0000, William Heimbigner wrote:
 > The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and 
 > ondemand in the kernel configuration.

This has been rejected several times already.
Ondemand and conservative isn't a viable governor for all cpufreq implementations
(ie, ones with high switching latencies).  Also, see the comment in the Kconfig
a few lines above where you are adding this.

	Dave

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