i talked to the maintainers and they told me that to include it in the mainline kernel is nearly impossible. Look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/4/246 .
if the patch can't get in ubuntu, maybe a seperate package with the patched speedstep-centrino module will help the users to use this feature... i'm working on a test package. -- FEATURE REQUEST: include linux-phc patch in kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/63789 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs