Re: cpufreq: allow user to specify voltage

Dominik Brodowski (linux@brodo.de)
Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:41:26 +0100


Hi Pavel, Hi Linus,

> Hi!
>
> This allows user to specify voltage manually. This gives me 40 extra
> minutes (1h50m -> 2h30m) on HP omnibook which appears to have broken
> bios tables. Please apply,
>
> Pavel

Please don't apply this patch -- for the following reasons:
- it only uses the deprecated, overloaded cpufreq proc_intf
- selecting the voltage within the policy (minimum and maximum frequency,
mode of operation) is not where it should be done: you may want a
different voltage at min-speed as at max-speed. So the frequency tables,
or -even better- the amd-k7-specific table may be a better choice for
this.
- selecting the voltage manually is something which is only valid for some
very few drivers - so let's only export one sysfs file[*] for these
drivers.

Dominik

[*] sysfs is the _only_ recommended way to access cpufreq these days.
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