[CPUFREQ] pcc driver should check for pcch method before calling _OSC
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:52:00 +0000 (13:52 -0400)
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tue, 3 Aug 2010 17:47:02 +0000 (13:47 -0400)
commit5d77b85458f656923b85291a4ff56ed44859ed52
tree2c6486e767ec0007a01db589b8eec05d90d148a0
parentcad70a6ae5aaef4641a3efdfd536c30f13891afe
[CPUFREQ] pcc driver should check for pcch method before calling _OSC

The pcc specification documents an _OSC method that's incompatible with the
one defined as part of the ACPI spec. This shouldn't be a problem as both
are supposed to be guarded with a UUID. Unfortunately approximately nobody
(including HP, who wrote this spec) properly check the UUID on entry to the
_OSC call. Right now this could result in surprising behaviour if the pcc
driver performs an _OSC call on a machine that doesn't implement the pcc
specification. Check whether the PCCH method exists first in order to reduce
this probability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c