From patchwork Mon May 20 10:50:58 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 244977 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A479F2C007E for ; Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:16 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UeNn8-0002Pi-Cj; Mon, 20 May 2013 10:58:10 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UeNiK-00062o-8N for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 20 May 2013 10:53:12 +0000 Received: from bl20-156-11.dsl.telepac.pt ([2.81.156.11] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UeNiJ-0008C8-TZ; Mon, 20 May 2013 10:53:12 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 058/115] cpufreq / Longhaul: Disable driver by default Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:50:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1369047116-9378-59-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1369047116-9378-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> References: <1369047116-9378-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Bilski?= , "Rafael J. Wysocki" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Bilski?= commit b5811bc469c0dbebb4f947800b9b234a9c0a68dc upstream. This is only solution I can think of. User decides if he wants this driver on his machine. I don't have enough knowledge and time to find the reason why same code works on some machines and doesn't on others which use the same, or very similar, chipset and processor. Signed-off-by: Rafał Bilski Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c b/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c index 53ddbc7..0bf5bd1 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static unsigned int longhaul_index; static int scale_voltage; static int disable_acpi_c3; static int revid_errata; - +static int enable; /* Clock ratios multiplied by 10 */ static int mults[32]; @@ -965,6 +965,10 @@ static int __init longhaul_init(void) if (!x86_match_cpu(longhaul_id)) return -ENODEV; + if (!enable) { + printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Option \"enable\" not set. Aborting.\n"); + return -ENODEV; + } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP if (num_online_cpus() > 1) { printk(KERN_ERR PFX "More than 1 CPU detected, " @@ -1021,6 +1025,10 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(scale_voltage, "Scale voltage of processor"); * such. */ module_param(revid_errata, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(revid_errata, "Ignore CPU Revision ID"); +/* By default driver is disabled to prevent incompatible + * system freeze. */ +module_param(enable, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable, "Enable driver"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Dave Jones "); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Longhaul driver for VIA Cyrix processors.");