According to::
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.12-rc6
There should be a:
commit 1206aaac285904e3e3995eecbf4129b6555a8973
Author: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 31 19:03:48 2005 -0700
[CPUFREQ] Allow ondemand stepping to be changed by user.
And when I look at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq.git;a=commit;h=1206aaac285904e3e3995eecbf4129b6555a8973
Yes, it is in linux-2.6.12-rc6, but also "[CPUFREQ] ondemand governor automatic downscaling" which back off this change because it introduce a new algorithm which compute automatically this step to the best value.
Problem is that neither a clean 2.6.11 patched with patch-2.6.12-rc6 nor
a full linux-2.6.12-rc6.tar.bz (I just downloaded it) contain that
commit.
Even more strange is the other discrepancies in that list, suggestingThat's what you should see, everything is ok :-)
other missed commits. Live directory from 2.6.12-rc :
root:sleipner:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand# ls
total 0
0 ignore_nice 0 sampling_rate 0 sampling_rate_min
0 sampling_down_factor 0 sampling_rate_max 0 up_threshold
I think it's completetly unrelated. Probably it's better to discuss about this bug on the cpufreq mailing list: cpufreq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Perhaps this is why I can't get the conservative governor to work at all
(it just sits at the freq at which it was loaded, never going up/down no
matter the load).