On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 06:07:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > Just flip the link order? It's only the way it is because in the > > past we wanted to try hardware-specific drivers before more generic > > ones, and I don't think that's a concern in this case now. > > Yeah, I heard that the acpi-idle and intel-idle drivers do that and also > heard that it was a hack. It doesn't look too ugly IMHO: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2671717265ae6e720a9ba5f13fbec3a718983b65 Haha, this turns into one of those chicken-or-the-egg problems: >From <drivers/cpufreq/Makefile>: ################################################################################## # x86 drivers. # Link order matters. K8 is preferred to ACPI because of firmware bugs in early # K8 systems. ... Great. :( -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
