powernowd vs. ondemand governor

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:58:32PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> The very fact it's done by grepping kernel supplied information means
> that we're just working around kernel lazyness.  This could be
> auto-loaded by the kernel, or it could be auto-loaded by udev if the
> kernel supplied enough information.

Not really, no. Knowing whether acpi-cpufreq can bind requires 
evaluating certain ACPI methods, and once you've evaluated those the 
firmware will (on some systems) make assumptions about the level of OS 
support.

> Hell, at worse, why aren't these all just builtin anyway?  The kernel
> seems to know which one to load.

You'll want to be careful about fixing up the link order to ensure it 
matches the fallback paths in the init script.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org