Bug 148206

Summary:	Should implement command line option to disable cpufreq
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Andreas Kleen <ak>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x <forgotten_ZhJd0F0L3x>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	Beta 3.5internal
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Andreas Kleen 2006-02-04 07:37:13 UTC

We have a few bugs again that are triggered by powersaved or powersaved
triggering hardware bugs. To give these users an easier workaround
I would propose to implement a nocpufreq command line option.
The powersaved init script should check /proc/cmdline and if it has
nopowersaved don't load any of the cpufreq modules.

Comment 1 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-02-04 20:43:34 UTC

This is a good idea IMO, i'll take care of implementing it.

Comment 2 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-02-13 21:26:09 UTC

we now obey POWERSAVE=off in the start script which is given to us as an environment variable by init, so no need to check /proc/cmdline ;-)

Comment 3 Andreas Kleen 2006-02-13 21:28:21 UTC

Thanks. But can you please make sure it's documented in the bootloader online
help and perhaps in the release notes? People need to know about this.

Comment 4 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-02-13 21:35:48 UTC

I tried. See bug #150613.

Comment 5 Andreas Kleen 2006-02-13 21:43:34 UTC

Thank you.