On Thursday, May 30, 2013 11:38:37 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I've noticed during recent testing that with this commit applied: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git/commit/?h=acpi-hotplug&id=ac212b6980d8d5eda705864fc5a8ecddc6d6eacc > > on my openSUSE (and Tubmbleweed) installations I need to modify > /etc/sysconfig/kernel to make mkinitrd put the acpi-cpufreq module into the > initramfs or otherwise it won't be loaded automatically. > > I think I understand why it needs to be present in the initramfs along the > processor module for the automatic loading to work (acpi_processor_load_module() > seems to need that), but before the above commit it wasn't necessary to make > any changes to /etc/sysconfig/kernel and acpi-cpufreq was loaded automatically > anyway. To be precise, before the commit in question acpi-cpufreq doesn't need to be present in the initramfs at all to be loaded automatically (and I don't really know how that works). > Unfortunately, my experience with udev and related things is kind of limited > and I have no idea what exactly makes the difference. Can you please have a > look and help me understand that? Thanks, Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
