Bug#364097: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686: /proc/cpuinfo reports wrong CPU frequency when using cpufreq since 2.6.16

[Xavier Douville <debian@douville.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686
Severity: minor


With 2.6.15 and under, /proc/cpuinfo reports true cpu frequency when 
using cpufreq (at least on non-SMP x86)

But since 2.6.16, we only get the target frequency of the current 
governor (ie. I get 1600 MHz instead of 1598.89 or something 
else when my multiplier is 16, no mather if the FSB is 100 or 1000 MHz)

/proc/cpuinfo should report the true speed, so that we know if our CPU 
is overclocked or underclocked.



This is relateted to this commit :

commit 95235ca2c20ac0b31a8eb39e2d599bcc3e9c9a10
Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Date:   Fri Dec 2 10:43:20 2005 -0800


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-z71a
Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)