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Message-Id: <201209051546.22590.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:46:22 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, Matthew Garret <mjg@...hat.com>,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, cpufreq@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8 v2] acpi-cpufreq: Move modern AMD cpufreq support to acpi-cpufreq
On Tuesday, September 04, 2012, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> now the second, revised version of the patch set. I now tested loading
> both drivers after each other in several combinations, after two bug
> fixes this now works as expected.
> I added a patch to move messages from powernow-k8 after the initialization
> phase, so it remains silent if driver loading fails.
>
> I also rearranged the patches so that the powernow-k8 feature removal patch is
> now the last one and is somewhat optional. I still prefer to have it in,
> but it can be dropped if needed. Then powernow-k8 will still support modern
> AMD CPUs, but will emit a warning message.
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
> Changes from v1:
> * added hints to Kconfig about CPU support
> * merge documentation from separate patch into the feature patch
> * add deprecation warning
> * prefix acpi-cpufreq warning messages with module name
> * bugfix: avoid boost init it driver registration failed
> * bugfix: fix module redirect request call (was not reached before)
I have applied the whole series to the linux-next branch of the linux-pm.git
tree, but I'm quite unsure about [7/8]. Is it really necessary? I mean, since
we want users to switch to a different driver anyway, which already has a knob
providing the functionality in question, what's the point really?
Rafael
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