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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:53:47 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, S K <nospamnoham@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:38:48PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:22:44AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > yeah don't bother with p4-clockmod, it's not something that saves you
> > energy... it only gives you a fake feeling that you would.
> 
> Why it is still in tree?
> 
> It's likely that you'll waste more time explaining everybody to not use
> p4-clockmod than send a patch.

Because it's useful for thermal throttling on hardware that doesn't 
implement voltage scaling.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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