Re: [PATCH] drivers/cpufreq: Warn user when powernow-k8 tries tofall back to acpi-cpufreq and it is unavailable.

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Jan 18 2013 - 11:23:39 EST


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:54:37PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> So, handoff to acpi-cpufreq still has some issues. When both are
> built-in, the module_init functions turn into normal initcalls and
> in that case, they're executed in link order and it can happen that
> powernowk8_init() runs before acpi_cpufreq_init().

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.

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