cpupowerutils packaging plans
Hi kernel team,
cpupowerutils (the evolution of cpufrequtils) has been included as part
of the tools/ directory in the upstream linux kernel source.
do you have any plans of packaging cpupowerutils as part of linux-tools
or can I go ahead and package it separately?
Or even, is it worth spawning a new package off of the linux kernel
source (as is done today for linux-utils) and get cpupowerutils built
each time a new kernel is released?
I guess the main downside of packaging it as part of linux-utils (or the
linux kernel builds) is the fact that package revisions for
cpupowerutils would spawn a new kernel build.
Instead keeping cpupowerutils as a separate package extracted from
upstream linux sources would allow the package to live its own life.
So far the extra job that cpufrequtils carried was to load governors and
cpu drivers for cpufreq in an init script, this should be brought over
to cpupowerutils and is what historically caused most of the revisions
to be created aside from new upstream versions.
Thoughts?
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mattia
:wq!
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