On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 18:03 -0500, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Ubuntu has some interesting changes to the powernowd package:
> They add a script detecting the CPU type and automatically loading the > right cpufreq_ module. This is the kind of changes that make Ubuntu "just > work" that we should really integrate back. Please consider this. Someone over there contacted me before they implemented this, or soon after. I'm not happy about the idea of just grabbing this patch as-is, despite agreeing that it would be nice for powernowd to "just work". That's because I continue to believe that knowledge of processor specifics does not belong in a package that lives entirely above a well-defined kernel interface that is processor agnostic. The fact that some other processor-specific module must also be loaded to make that interface work seems like it should be handled either by the kernel packaging, hotplug/udev, or some other package that every daemon trying to manage through this interface (powernowd isn't the only one, after all!) can depend on, so that this information is captured exactly once and as close to the hardware and kernel as possible. What do you think? Am I just being pedantic, or can we come up with a better way of providing the saem ultimate functionality to Debian users that's a better design for the long term? Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
