cpuspeed und cpuidle

[Jarod Wilson]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/11/2007 12:48 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> I submitted a push request for the FC6 update I did w/the other pre-F7
>> update system, but haven't got any notice about it being pushed just
>> yet. I'll ping someone in rel-eng.
>>
>> Can't wait for FC-6 to die now, so we don't have two different ways of
>> doing things (er, make that three w/the RHEL stuff I do too)...
>>
> 
> Not until December...

Yeah, I know. Damned users wanting us to support stuff for more than
6mo... ;)

> I wonder if we shouldn't just be very conservative with FC6 and drop
> the cpuidle there patch as well. Then that update wouldn't be needed.
> Otherwise we've got to add another 'requires' to the kernel package.

worksforme, but I don't really run fc6 anywhere anymore either.

> (And I assume the cpuspeed update still works with old 2.6.18 kernels
> in case someone updates cpuspeed but not the kernel?)

Yep, the change is really minor (just a slightly stricter pattern match
when looking for per-cpu cpufreq bits in /sys -- match cpu[0-9]* instead
of cpu*), works just fine with older kernels.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com


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