linux-kernel - Re: cpuinfo shows wrong MHz value

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Message-Id: <200902161952.38122.elendil@planet.nl>
Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:52:37 +0100
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	trenn@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpuinfo shows wrong MHz value

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:13:15PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
>> AFAIK p4-clockmode is still not synchronized with ACPI throttling?
> 
> It ought to work fine with any systems using MSR-based throttling.

So what's your take on this particular bug report then Matthew? Is this a 
regression that should be tracked down and fixed, or is this a case where 
the user should just not be using the module?

Having a module that loads happily but completely screws up the reported 
cpu frequency in /proc/cpuinfo seems suboptimal.
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