[systemd-devel] cpufrequtils considered useless (was: systemd unit files for Debian based systems)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 19.06.12 11:42, Paul Menzel (paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net) wrote:

Heya,

> > > I guess it is useful to have an abstraction layer because directories
> > > and files under `/sys` might change.
> > 
> > Nah, really, cpufrequtils should just go away. People should use the
> > kernel APIs right away.
> 
> alright looking into why `cpufrequtils` is installed on my system I now
> know the reasons. The frequency(?) modules are not loaded automatically
> and therefore the init.d script shipped by `cpufrequtils` is needed.

This is a not the case anymore for kernels 3.3 and up anymore. CPU
feature modules are now loaded automatically based on the CPUID data.

Lennart

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