Bug#843071: linux-cpupower: cpupower does not change the governor

["Julien RIVAUD (_FrnchFrgg_)" <frnchfrgg@free.fr>]

Package: linux-cpupower
Version: 4.8.5-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

cpupower doesn't change the governor when asked to:

When the governor is on powersave,

# cpupower -c 0 frequency-set -g performance

does nothing, whereas

# echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

works correctly.

The bug has been known upstream for a while but the proposed fix is
not yet included; maybe it could be a Debian patch until the fix is
added upstream ?

Cheers,

_FrnchFrgg_

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (999, 'testing'), (555, 'unstable'), (111, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages linux-cpupower depends on:
ii  libc6         2.24-5
ii  libcpupower1  4.8.5-1
ii  libpci3       1:3.3.1-1.1

linux-cpupower recommends no packages.

linux-cpupower suggests no packages.

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