Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable PowerMac cpufreq on SMP kernels

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:14:58 +1000

On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 11:39 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> The build of a PowerMac 32bit kernel currently fails with
> 
> error: #warning "WARNING, CPUFREQ not recommended on SMP kernels"
> 
> This patch just disables this driver on SMP kernels, as it is obviously
> not supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <[email-masked]>

Why not remove the #error instead ? :-) I don't think it's still
meaningful, especially since we use the timebase for delays nowadays
which doesn't depend on the CPU frequency...

Ben.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
> index 04a8061..99d3564 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig
> @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ menu "CPU Frequency drivers"
>  
>  config CPU_FREQ_PMAC
>  	bool "Support for Apple PowerBooks"
> -	depends on ADB_PMU && PPC32
> +	depends on ADB_PMU && PPC32 && !SMP
>  	select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
>  	help
>  	  This adds support for frequency switching on Apple PowerBooks,
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