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@@ -147,9 +147,9 @@ CPUs in it.
The next major initialization step for a new policy object is to attach a
scaling governor to it (to begin with, that is the default scaling governor
-determined by the kernel configuration, but it may be changed later
-via ``sysfs``). First, a pointer to the new policy object is passed to the
-governor's ``->init()`` callback which is expected to initialize all of the
+determined by the kernel command line or configuration, but it may be changed
+later via ``sysfs``). First, a pointer to the new policy object is passed to
+the governor's ``->init()`` callback which is expected to initialize all of the
data structures necessary to handle the given policy and, possibly, to add
a governor ``sysfs`` interface to it. Next, the governor is started by
invoking its ``->start()`` callback.