Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@(protected):

> On Saturday 19 July 2008 17:05:47 Olivier Blin wrote:
>> Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@(protected):
>> > On za, 2008-07-19 at 10:44 +0200, JPB wrote:
>> >> Title says all; in addition the default value for governor is
>> >> "performance" so my laptop cpu(s) were running quite hot :-(
>> >> Can't retrieve the post but I seems to remenber that "ondemand" was
>> >> agreed as default (even for Desktop machines) ?
>> >
>> > Yes, I already brought this up one year ago I think, but nobody cares to
>> > implement it in cpufreq package:-(
>>
>> The default cpufreq policy could be set in the kernel instead, not
>> necessarily in the cpufreq package, which is only intended to override
>> the default behavior
>
> Why make it difficult and set the powersave cpufreq governer by default in the
> kernel itself (which no other distro that I know of is doing), if you can
> simply do it in a config file? Actually currently we are installing cpufreq by
> default on laptops, but don't configure it, which does not make sense at
> all...

Well, it would remove a higher abstraction level (cpufreq initscript)
which we could not install by default actually, since it is unused in
most of the cases.

But it's probably wiser to make the governor easily configurable
through the cpufreq initscript, to allow the system to be rescued in
case the ondemand governor is broken

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