Am Dienstag, den 19.06.2012, 12:10 +0200 schrieb Kay Sievers: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 19.06.2012, 11:48 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: > >> On Tue, 19.06.12 11:42, Paul Menzel wrote: > > >> > > > I guess it is useful to have an abstraction layer because directories > >> > > > and files under `/sys` might change. > >> > > > >> > > Nah, really, cpufrequtils should just go away. People should use the > >> > > kernel APIs right away. > >> > > >> > alright looking into why `cpufrequtils` is installed on my system I now > >> > know the reasons. The frequency(?) modules are not loaded automatically > >> > and therefore the init.d script shipped by `cpufrequtils` is needed. > >> > >> This is a not the case anymore for kernels 3.3 and up anymore. CPU > >> feature modules are now loaded automatically based on the CPUID data. > > > > great news! So what should distributions having decided to use Linux 3.2 > > for their next stable release do? > > Update their kernel. :)
Or backport that feature [1][2]. Ben Hutchings rules and I thank him for doing all that great work on the Linux kernel side! Thanks Ben! > Or do whatever they used to do in the past and bet it works, like it > did most of the time. The problem is pretty much solved from systemd's > point of view, so there will be no effort from this side. […] So now Debian Wheezy users on x86 do not need cpufrequtils anymore to load the correct module. Thanks, Paul [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664813 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678116
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