Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:38:48PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 04:22:44AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > yeah don't bother with p4-clockmod, it's not something that saves you
> > energy... it only gives you a fake feeling that you would.
> 
> Why it is still in tree?
> 
> It's likely that you'll waste more time explaining everybody to not use
> p4-clockmod than send a patch.

Because it's useful for thermal throttling on hardware that doesn't 
implement voltage scaling.

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