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Re: stable-proposed-updates: considering cpufrequtils



On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 06:50 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:33:10PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 07:52 +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote:
[...]
> > Apologies for the delay in getting back to you about this.

and again :-( - although not quite as long this time, happily...

> > > +  * Bulk load only helper modules. Linux 3.0 shuffled cpufreq modules
> > > +    locations a bit and now cpu drivers and helpers are in the same directory
> > > +    (closes: #636141).
> > > +  * Use modprobe -b in loadcpufreq to honour blacklisted modules
> > > +    (closes: #592488).
> > > +  * Load powernow-k8 for AMD family 20 (i.e. AMD E-350 cpus)
> > > +    (closes: #627811).
> > > +  * Stop changing printk levels when loading cpufreq modules (closes: #624575
> > > +    and closes: #596235).
> > 
> > I've been debating whether to accept all of the changes, and changed my
> > mind a few times while arguing with myself. :-)  Have the changes been
> 
> what is your current stance? :)

I'm edging towards acking all of them, but it partly depends on:

> > tested on a stable system?
> 
> To be honest I haven't tried it myself on a stable system but I'll give
> it a go in the next days (towards the weekend most likely). The change
> that my have a funny dependency is the "-b" addition to modprobe but
> other than that it's all pretty safe and it's mostly removing
> unnecessary code or making the find predicate more specific.
> On the other hand there are a couple of backports of the whole package
> already so I don't expect many surprises.

Did you have chance to do the testing you mentioned here?

Regards,

Adam


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