Re: v5.8+ powersave governor breakage?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Nov 05 2020 - 10:08:46 EST


On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 15:31 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, November 2, 2020 7:18:41 AM CET Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > Desktop box did, it gained a working ondemand, while its previously
> > working powersave went broke.
>
> Most likely that's because it was handled by intel_pstate in the "active" mode
> previously, while it is now handled by it in the "passive" mode...

Perhaps the user interface should then nak switching to powersave as it
used to nak switching to ondemand?

-Mike