Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261191AbUCCW2T (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:28:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261211AbUCCW2T (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:28:19 -0500 Received: from delerium.kernelslacker.org ([81.187.208.145]:40834 "EHLO delerium.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261191AbUCCW2P (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2004 17:28:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:27:12 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Pavel Machek Cc: Cpufreq mailing list , kernel list , davej@codemonkey.ork.uk Subject: Re: powernow-k8-acpi driver Message-ID: <20040303222712.GA16874@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Pavel Machek , Cpufreq mailing list , kernel list , davej@codemonkey.ork.uk References: <20040303215435.GA467@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040303215435.GA467@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 18 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:54:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Lots of machines have broken PST tables, so current in-kernel driver > refuses to works on them. Vendors do get ACPI tables right because > apparently Windows use them ;-). So this driver tends to work. > > Comments? Could we get this into mainline? I really dislike the idea of having >1 driver for this. Why can't we have a "use_acpi" module_param to switch to this ? Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/