[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#552016: acpid: acpi-cpufreq kernel module is not auto-loaded

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: acpid
Version: 1.0.10-2
Severity: important

The kernel now prefers a unified single module, acpi-cpufreq, for
dynamic cpu frequency scaling.

I have noticed that the acpi-cpufreq module is no more auto-loaded.

This leads to full CPU utilization at all times thus leading to more heat which then
further leads to trip points and shuts off.
Fix is to manually add acpi-cpufreq in /etc/modules.

Was acpid loading the acpi-cpufreq module earlier ?
Is acpid supposed to load the acpi-cpufreq module ?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools             3.11-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.123-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve

acpid suggests no packages.

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