Comment 13 for bug 355232

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :

Ok we moved them in so we could get rid of userspace lash up to get them loaded under the commit below which appears to have originated from Scott. I assume in the "no rules in userspace" land we find ourselves we would need to find some kind of module alias match up to make these modularisable. Will have a look if we have anything already or whether its easy to get something produced:

commit 495f78bd6d8f7a5e35dd962031eb6e639d83e438
Author: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 18 07:51:12 2009 -0700

    UBUNTU: Build in CPU Frequency scaling drivers

    Selecting the right CPU Frequency scaling driver is complicated from
    userspace, involing a nasty shell script that attempts to guess by
    grepping through /proc.

    The kernel drivers themselves can adequately determine whether they
    should be used, building them into the kernel will automatically select
    the right one.

    These aren't something you would want to unload either, you would
    instead simply change the governor.

    rtg - Added debian/abi/2.6.28-8.23/modules.ignore to accomodate the missing

    Signed-off-by: Scott James Remnant <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>