From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755760AbZEWS3f (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 14:29:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753793AbZEWS33 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 14:29:29 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f166.google.com ([209.85.217.166]:46694 "EHLO mail-gx0-f166.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753509AbZEWS32 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2009 14:29:28 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=B79iaXiC++NhA24rHVnjs6Z6j44W2aMpyFi+3W+GJqtTFSKmLe34dosETNkXx5gTIY Hjb6LYJxtgUobUX1OnvCSWXrlxZapa9dgoas1xWbb1504fljT3Ry1aoEfre00peYicKl 8WJV4ezhTwU6U2oLiMbdkPlL+23WkIEMODArU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 11:29:29 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: running the kernel without hal= how safe with the cpufreq From: Justin Mattock To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm in the process of building a system minus hal(since udev 142 explains itself in the README), Anyways I normally just have "ondemand" compiled as the main cpufreq module, and have no powermgnt or cpufreq userspace tool except or was hal. should I be concerned without having hal due to things like this in ps auxZ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-macbookpro-backlight /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq will the kernel take charge of the cores or do I need to find a userspace app to keep them at a safe level? -- Justin P. Mattock