Comment 8 for bug 87001

The built-in default of the kernel is 'conservative'. When a computer is switched off, it has no memory of previous settings. When the system boots, the built-in default is always used ('conservative').

If we want something else to be used, we need to have a program to tell the kernel to use something other than the default, /at every boot/.

After we have told the kernel we would like it to use a different governor, then we're okay to complain about the kernel changing the governor on its own.

The initscript that currently does this type of setting is called '/etc/init.d/powernowd'; not that this is primarily a script, by default we no longer start the associated daemon. That script currently lacks a useful configuration method since we stopped using the daemon and switched to the built-in kernel methods.