[systemd-devel] cpufrequtils considered useless

[Paul Menzel]

Am Dienstag, den 19.06.2012, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Tue, 19.06.12 11:42, Paul Menzel (paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net) wrote:

Dear Lennart,


> > > > 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.

great news! So what should distributions having decided to use Linux 3.2
for their next stable release do?


Thanks,

Paul
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