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From:   Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 1 Feb 2020 01:16:47 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC] why do sensors break CPU scaling
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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On 31/01/2020, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Wed 2019-11-20 21:42:12, Tom Psyborg wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Recently I've needed to set lowest CPU scaling profile, running ubuntu
>> 16.04.06 I used standard approach - echoing powersave to
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor.
>> This did not work as the
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq kept returning
>> max scaling freq.
>
> Noone noticed, right?
>
> If you still believe that's problem, you may want to look at
> MAINTAINERS file, and put sensors maintainers in the Cc list.
>
> Best regards,
> 									Pavel
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it is definitely a problem. i've installed radeon-profile and can
monitor both CPU and GPU temps from there without CPU scaling
breakage. CCing related list