Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: intel_turbo_max_3: Remove restriction for HWP platforms

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 2/14/2018 11:29 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada
> <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On systems supporting HWP (Hardware P-States) mode, we expected to
> > enumerate core priority via ACPI-CPPC tables. Unfortunately deployment of
> > TURBO 3.0 didn't use this method to show core priority. So users are not
> > able to utilize this feature in HWP mode.
> >
> > So remove the loading restriction of this driver for HWP enabled systems.
> > Even if there are some systems, which are providing the core priority via
> > ACPI CPPC, this shouldn't cause any conflict as the source of priority
> > definition is same.
>
> Pushed to my review and testing queue, thanks!
>
> P.S. Should it go to stable?

older stable at least did not have the problem