linux-kernel - Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

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Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:53:47 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	S K <nospamnoham@...il.com>, Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@...el.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>,
	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:38:48PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:22:44AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > yeah don't bother with p4-clockmod, it's not something that saves you
> > energy... it only gives you a fake feeling that you would.
> 
> Why it is still in tree?
> 
> It's likely that you'll waste more time explaining everybody to not use
> p4-clockmod than send a patch.

Because it's useful for thermal throttling on hardware that doesn't 
implement voltage scaling.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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