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Bug#664813: Please use the ondemand cpufreq governor by default (CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND)



Source: linux-2.6
Severity: wishlist

Current versions of the Linux kernel will load most appropriate cpufreq
modules automatically (using the new autoloading aliases based on x86
CPU models and features).  Defaulting to ondemand would make cpufreq
automatically work on any systems with cpufreq support, without the need
for userspace enablement packages like cpufrequtils in the common case.

cpufrequtils already defaults to ondemand without prompting, so this
wouldn't change the effective default.  Anyone desiring one of the other
cpufreq governors can easily install cpufrequtils and configure that
governor.  Meanwhile, this change would make frequency scaling Just Work
on most systems.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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