Re: powernow-k8-acpi driver

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 17:30:09 EST


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:54:36PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Lots of machines have broken PST tables, so current in-kernel driver
> refuses to works on them. Vendors do get ACPI tables right because
> apparently Windows use them ;-). So this driver tends to work.
>
> Comments? Could we get this into mainline?

I really dislike the idea of having >1 driver for this.
Why can't we have a "use_acpi" module_param to switch to this ?

Dave
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/