[Bug 12826] cpufreq driver do not expose all data and configuration to /sys

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12826





------- Comment #16 from anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  2009-03-06 21:19 -------
Reply-To: mjg@xxxxxxxxxx

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 08:46:07PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 04:38:57 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Resulting in computers that run slower and consume more power. "My 
> > script that does something stupid now gives an error" isn't a 
> > regression. "My computer now overheats" is a bug that was being hidden 
> > in the first place. Why don't we just fix that bug?
> 
> Do the thing which I suggested, and which you deleted without comment.

As I said, we can't print a warning without either special casing 
p4-clockmod in the core or adding code to every driver that will only be 
relevant for p4-clockmod. It also means another 6 months of computers 
running slower and consuming more power.

> Or something else!  Just don't break existing userspace code, and
> people's computers.  I'm sure you can manage this.

I'd be thrilled to avoid fixing people's computers, but that means they 
need to report the bug about their machine overheating. Breaking code 
that is doing something actively harmful is a feature rather than a bug, 
so I'm less concerned about that.


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