Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add P state driver for Intel Core Processors

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Wed Feb 13 2013 - 23:08:37 EST


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Dirk Brandewie
<dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For the case where both are built-in the load order works my driver uses
> device_initcall() and acpi_cpufreq uses late_initcall().
>
> For the case where both are a module (which I was sure I tested) you are
> right
> I will have to do something.
>
> For now I propose to make my driver built-in only while I sort out the right
> solution for the module build. Does this seem reasonable to everyone?

Of-course i am missing something here. Why would anybody want to insert
acpi-cpufreq module when the system supports the pstate driver.

In case they are mutually exclusive, then we can have something like
depends on !ACPI-DRIVER in the kconfig option of pstate driver.
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