Re: *powersave* governor shown despite disabled in configuration

From: Dominik Brodowski
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 01:51:59 EST


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 04:30:05PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Linux folks,
>
>
> With Linux 4.14.76, the scaling governor *powersave* is shown as
> being available despite being disabled in the configuration.

Which cpufreq driver do you use? Presumably intel_pstate? That driver
exposes internal policies / "governors" named "performance" and "powersave",
which are unrelated to CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE.

Thanks,
Dominik