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authorTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>2012-04-24 11:47:18 -0600
committerJohn Rigby <john.rigby@linaro.org>2012-08-15 23:46:01 -0600
commit7d2690599442d8e36817c1b43fb41c31236f0faf (patch)
tree5f9969bae3fc2ae8eab2d217cdbf3e7776aa6f04 /drivers
parent33a7ce3a5ea68e907f9d312c8d3648c6bcae3866 (diff)
UBUNTU: SAUCE: Allow filtering of cpufreq drivers
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/984288 Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Acked-by: Herton Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c22
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index fb8a5279c5d..0513e7faf13 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -1836,6 +1836,20 @@ static struct notifier_block __refdata cpufreq_cpu_notifier = {
* REGISTER / UNREGISTER CPUFREQ DRIVER *
*********************************************************************/
+static char cpufreq_driver_name[CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN];
+
+static int __init cpufreq_driver_setup(char *str)
+{
+ strlcpy(cpufreq_driver_name, str, CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN);
+ return 1;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Set this name to only allow one specific cpu freq driver, e.g.,
+ * cpufreq_driver=powernow-k8
+ */
+__setup("cpufreq_driver=", cpufreq_driver_setup);
+
/**
* cpufreq_register_driver - register a CPU Frequency driver
* @driver_data: A struct cpufreq_driver containing the values#
@@ -1858,7 +1872,13 @@ int cpufreq_register_driver(struct cpufreq_driver *driver_data)
((!driver_data->setpolicy) && (!driver_data->target)))
return -EINVAL;
- pr_debug("trying to register driver %s\n", driver_data->name);
+ pr_debug("trying to register driver %s, cpufreq_driver=%s\n",
+ driver_data->name, cpufreq_driver_name);
+
+ if (cpufreq_driver_name[0])
+ if (!driver_data->name ||
+ strcmp(cpufreq_driver_name, driver_data->name))
+ return -EINVAL;
if (driver_data->setpolicy)
driver_data->flags |= CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS;