[PATCH 0/3] Improve usability for amd-pstate

From: Mario Limonciello
Date: Fri Mar 25 2022 - 01:42:07 EST


There has recently been some news coverage about `amd-pstate` being in
5.17, but this news also mentioned that it's a bit difficult to use.

You need to either block init calls, or compile the module into the kernel
to force it to take precedence over acpi-cpufreq.

This series aims to improve the usability of amd-pstate so that distros
can compile as a module, but users can still use it (relatively) easily.

A new module parameter is included that will force amd-pstate to take
precedence and a module table to let it load automatically on such systems.

With the patches in this series a user can make a file
/etc/modprobe.d/amd-pstate.conf:

options amd-pstate replace=1

Then upon the next reboot amd-pstate should load automatically even if
acpi-cpufreq was included on the system.
Mario Limonciello (3):
cpufreq: Allow passing NULL as the argument for unregistering a driver
cpufreq: amd-pstate: Allow replacing existing cpufreq drivers when
loaded
cpufreq: amd-pstate: Add a module device table

drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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