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

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 12:25:37 EST


<dropping trivial@ from cc: as this definitly isn't>

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:17:11PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-04-27 11:49:26.000000000 -1000
> +++ linux-2.6.21.1/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-05-15 14:48:50.000000000 -1000
> @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ config X86_POWERNOW_K8
> tristate "AMD Opteron/Athlon64 PowerNow!"
> select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> + depends on X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ
> help
> This adds the CPUFreq driver for mobile AMD Opteron/Athlon64 processors.

This is completely the wrong thing to do.
There's no dependancy between these two modules, as they are two independant
cpufreq drivers. I think you may be confused with X86_POWERNOW_K8_ACPI
(Which should get set if you have ACPI_PROCESSOR enabled)

Dave

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