Quoting Len "Do not give an option to users to shoot themselves in the foot". Remove the configurability of ladder and menu governors as they are needed for default policy of cpuidle. That way users will not be able to have cpuidle without any policy loosing all C-state power savings. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc6/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc6.orig/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.23-rc6/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ -menu "CPU idle PM support" config CPU_IDLE bool "CPU idle PM support" @@ -10,30 +9,13 @@ config CPU_IDLE If you're using a mobile platform that supports CPU idle PM (e.g. an ACPI-capable notebook), you should say Y here. -if CPU_IDLE - -comment "Governors" - config CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER - tristate "'ladder' governor" + bool depends on CPU_IDLE default y - help - This cpuidle governor promotes and demotes through the supported idle - states using residency time and bus master activity as metrics. This - algorithm was originally introduced in the old ACPI processor driver. config CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU - tristate "'menu' governor" + bool depends on CPU_IDLE && NO_HZ default y - help - This cpuidle governor evaluates all available states and chooses the - deepest state that meets all of the following constraints: BM activity, - expected time until next timer interrupt, and last break event time - delta. It is designed to minimize power consumption. Currently - dynticks is required. - -endif # CPU_IDLE -endmenu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
