From e088e4c9cdb618675874becb91b2fd581ee707e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:29:47 -0500 Subject: [CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod. p4-clockmod has a long history of abuse. It pretends to be a CPU frequency scaling driver, even though it doesn't actually change the CPU frequency, but instead just modulates the frequency with wait-states. The biggest misconception is that when running at the lower 'frequency' p4-clockmod is saving power. This isn't the case, as workloads running slower take longer to complete, preventing the CPU from entering deep C states. However p4-clockmod does have a purpose. It can prevent overheating. Having it hooked up to the cpufreq interfaces is the wrong way to achieve cooling however. It should instead be hooked up to ACPI. This diff introduces a means for a cpufreq driver to register with the cpufreq core, but not present a sysfs interface. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Dave Jones --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c index ba3a94a..0c43b22 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c @@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_driver p4clockmod_driver = { .name = "p4-clockmod", .owner = THIS_MODULE, .attr = p4clockmod_attr, + .hide_interface = 1, }; -- cgit v1.1