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

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:42:10AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Without the appropriate modules loaded – in my case `powernow_k8` – no
> power saving features of the CPU are available.
> 
> So how is this supposed to work out of the box?

  This was fixed in kernel (1.4. x86 CPU driver autoprobing): 
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.4#head-9df4e508cb97f4e138c590b9ccff3e0eda6cc7fc


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