Comment 49 for bug 132271

I am not a kernel developer per se, but I am a developer nonetheless, and I have done a bit of kernel debugging back in the early days of 2.6.

I think some people are overlooking the feasibility of continuing to support speedstep_centrino once it has been officially removed from the kernel. This is not some userland app that is kernel-agnostic. This is something fairly core and low level. Once it has been removed upstream, you may find that there aren't even any hooks left in the kernel where a modularised speedstep_centrino could hook into.

I think rather than continue to plead for this to be reinstated, this issue needs the input of a) an Ubuntu kernel maintainer or b) one of the cpufreq kernel developers, to shed light on the technical feasibility of retaining this outdated code.

As I think I've already made fairly clear, the upstream devs have little to no interest in continuing to maintain speedstep_centrino, so it really falls on the Ubuntu kernel maintainers to decide whether they feel like doing this, and whether it can even in fact be done.