Re: cpuinfo shows wrong MHz value

From: Frans Pop
Date: Mon Feb 16 2009 - 13:52:50 EST


Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:13:15PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
>> AFAIK p4-clockmode is still not synchronized with ACPI throttling?
>
> It ought to work fine with any systems using MSR-based throttling.

So what's your take on this particular bug report then Matthew? Is this a
regression that should be tracked down and fixed, or is this a case where
the user should just not be using the module?

Having a module that loads happily but completely screws up the reported
cpu frequency in /proc/cpuinfo seems suboptimal.
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