[PATCH] Remove SMP warning from PowerMac cpufreq

Bastian Blank bastian at waldi.eu.org
Thu Aug 13 19:30:45 EST 2009


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:14:58PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 11:39 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > This patch just disables this driver on SMP kernels, as it is obviously
> > not supported.
> 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...

Your call. Take this one:

The build of a PowerMac 32bit kernel currently fails with

error: #warning "WARNING, CPUFREQ not recommended on SMP kernels"

Thie patch removes the not longer applicable SMP warning from the
PowerMac cpufreq code.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/cpufreq_32.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/cpufreq_32.c
index 65c585b..08d94e4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/cpufreq_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/cpufreq_32.c
@@ -44,14 +44,6 @@
  */
 #undef DEBUG_FREQ
 
-/*
- * There is a problem with the core cpufreq code on SMP kernels,
- * it won't recalculate the Bogomips properly
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-#warning "WARNING, CPUFREQ not recommended on SMP kernels"
-#endif
-
 extern void low_choose_7447a_dfs(int dfs);
 extern void low_choose_750fx_pll(int pll);
 extern void low_sleep_handler(void);
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