linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules

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Message-ID: <20090218183641.GA20203@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:36:41 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	davej@...emonkey.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:31:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Nice fix! Where does this information come from? Distro module 
> ordering magic? It's rather non-trivial.

Pretty much. p4-clockmod is never the preferred option because it does 
no voltage scaling. speedstep-centrino is now almost entirely 
functionally replaced with acpi-cpufreq. The powernow-k8 issue was a 
personal communication from davej.

> (small style nit: the first line in the Makefile is overlong.)

Seems to be 79 characters?

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