Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

From: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:04:40 -0400

Duane Griffin wrote:

On 16/05/07, Prakash Punnoor <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe you want to give a hint in the p states driver help text?

I think a hint is the right thing to do, but in the PowerNow! driver
rather than the p states one. How about adding something like this to
the X86_POWERNOW_K8 (and X86_POWERNOW_K7?) help text:

Please hold off this patch until we've gained a more complete understanding of the issues and workarounds (which will probably lead to us writing a better patch anyway)

Daniel

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