Re: [PATCH] Remove deprecated speedstep-centrino driver

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:49:58AM +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 09:53:21PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> >  > Remove deprecated speedstep-centrino driver
> >  >
> >  > Not 100% sure whether there are machines out there that still need the
> >  > static Banias tables, Venkatesh?
> >
> > Hmm, if we decide to remove this for 2.6.27, I think we should
> > get a printk into .26 on module load to say that it's going away.
> > This likely has more valid use cases than the clockmod driver, so I
> > think a heads-up to any potential users of it who still haven't seen
> > the warning in the Kconfig might be a good idea.
> >   
> 
> The one function difference from cpufreq_acpi is that it doens't rely on 
> acpi.  On my laptop of the time that was a useful distinction, but it 
> may have been more due to the shoddy state of acpi in Linux rather than 
> the BIOS.

And that's the reason why I'd propose to keep it unless ACPI is actually
required to be set to "y" on those systems -- which I doubt.

Best,
	Dominik