On Sun, 14 May 2006, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > 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?
There's always room to do things better but in this case I have not enough knowledge of udev and the like to be able to judge anything. Thus I'm ccing Marco to have his input as udev maintainer. Marco, is there a way for udev to detect the kind of processors used and to load the right module depending on that? Also I don't know if those modules should be always loaded or if they should be loaded only when powernowd is installed... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
