Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:32:39 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, cpufreq <cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CPU frequency display in /proc/cpuinfo
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:43:35PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:43:20AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> > The patch below changes this to:
> > Show the last known frequency of the particular CPU, when cpufreq is present. If
> > cpu doesnot support changing of frequency through cpufreq, then boot frequency 
> > will be shown. The patch affects i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures.
> 
> Looks good to me -- however, might this affect userspace cpufreq tools? I'd

They normally use /sys anyways.

> vote for quite some time in -mm for this patch (i.e. only merge for 2.6.17)

Actually it just changes behaviour back to older kernels (~2.6.10 or earlier) 
which always behaved like this.  So it should be safe.

-Andi
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