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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:21:10 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: remove cpu hotplug bustification in cpufreq.
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:52:05 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > What kind of _crap_ is this cpufreq thing?
> 
> this is why lockdep got highly upset with it, and why Davej proposed to
> remove the locking entirely for now until it can be put back in a
> correct way....

I thought just the 'ondemand' governor was a problem?

That thing has been broken since day 1 AFAICT.  There are lots of
reports of problems with it on the list.

-- 
Chuck