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| author | Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> | 2007-07-08 23:39:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2007-07-13 01:29:51 -0400 |
| commit | 68485695e5a84399da7b48b208ac42623fe22963 (patch) | |
| tree | d76718f250443ba51eb4c7b2d43dcde44468f595 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | 905497c4b2e6715eebde97cbcb313354e14c2489 (diff) | |
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[CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI
This patch contains the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 0599a0c7c026..092c65dd35c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -196,28 +196,6 @@ Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> --------------------------- -What: ACPI hooks (X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI) in speedstep-centrino driver -When: December 2006 -Why: Speedstep-centrino driver with ACPI hooks and acpi-cpufreq driver are - functionally very much similar. They talk to ACPI in same way. Only - difference between them is the way they do frequency transitions. - One uses MSRs and the other one uses IO ports. Functionaliy of - speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks is now merged into acpi-cpufreq. - That means one common driver will support all Intel Enhanced Speedstep - capable CPUs. That means less confusion over name of - speedstep-centrino driver (with that driver supposed to be used on - non-centrino platforms). That means less duplication of code and - less maintenance effort and no possibility of these two drivers - going out of sync. - Current users of speedstep_centrino with ACPI hooks are requested to - switch over to acpi-cpufreq driver. speedstep-centrino will continue - to work using older non-ACPI static table based scheme even after this - date. - -Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> - ---------------------------- - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace When: 2.6.21 Why: The ACPI namespace is effectively the symbol list for |
