Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-21 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
this topic so I'm assuming that the ball has been dropped. Please excuse me if an acceptable patch has been submitted that I wasn't CC'd on. Here is cleaned up version of Ed's patch that I believe addresses Dave's stylistic concerns applies the relevant changes to both x86 &

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-17 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
I think it's pretty clear that Dave and Daniel were both correct and that ACPI_PROCESSOR is the correct dependency for multi-socket systems. However, it's worth noting that this dependency seems to be unrelated to SMP support. Ed Sweetman has reported that his single-socket but multi-core system d

Re: [PATCH] powernow-k8: depend on acpi-processor for SMP systems

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
I don't think this is quiet right either as Ed Sweetman has reported that this issue doesn't occur on single socket/multi-core systems. -J -- On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:50:50AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > powernow-k8 uses PSB BIOS tables to read frequency info on UP systems, but > on SMP it requ

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-16 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:04:40PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote: > Duane Griffin wrote: > >On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text? > > > >I think a hint is the right thing to do, but in the PowerNow! driver > >rather t

[PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-15 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
to be enforced only if SMP in enabled. The other powernow-* drivers likely have the same requirements as -k8 but I am unable to test them. Signed-off-by: Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Kconfig |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufr

Re: difference between arcmsr (areca) 1.20.0X.13 & 2.6.20 in tree driver?

2007-04-10 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
007 17:21:35 -1000 Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > [adding linux-scsi] > > > Has anyone else noticed this regression? > > > > -J > > > > -- > > - Forwarded message from Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > > > From: Joshua Hob

difference between arcmsr (areca) 1.20.0X.13 & 2.6.20 in tree driver?

2007-04-02 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Has anyone else noticed this regression? -J -- - Forwarded message from Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:38:20 -1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: difference between 1.20.0X.13 & 2.6.20 in tree dr