Hi Marc, On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 19:47:34 0100 Marc Haber <mh debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > Package: powertop > Version: 2.8-1 b1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I am filing this as Severity: normal since I do not know whether this > issue affects powertop functionality. Please feel free to downgrad the > severity if it's a purely cosmetic issue, which I suspect. > > In Debian, CPU_FREQ_STAT is set to y in the kernel config, so the driver > is built into the kernel. Yet, powertop tries to unconditionally > modprobe cpufreq_stat and complains when this fails. At least, the > complaint needs to be silenced.
I believe the issue is purely cosmetic. I'm not sure if there is a way to detect reliably the kernel has CPU_FREQ_STAT compiled in. On my system although I'm running the Debian kernel, I don't have the `/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state` file. Kanru
