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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)
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On Thursday 06 May 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Brian Swetland wrote:
> 
> > > Probably generalizing these into the LDM is the direction to go so
> > > userspace can set constraints on a per-device (or per-class?) basis:
> > >
> > > /sys/devices/.../power/constraint/throughput
> > > /sys/devices/.../power/constraint/wakeup_latency
> > > /sys/devices/.../power/constraint/... ?
> > 
> > The constraint stuff is definitely something I'd love to talk about in
> > detail.  It's a problem that I think is common to every SoC I've
> > worked with.  Having a general solution for this problem (of
> > specifying and observing various constraints for clock, power, qos,
> > etc) kernel-wide would seem like a big win.
> > 
> > Might be worth kicking some design ideas around and getting a bunch of
> > the interested parties together at some of the upcoming linux
> > conference things this fall on the east coast?
> 
> The Linux Power-Management Summit is scheduled for August 9, at the 
> start of the LinuxCon meeting in Boston.  This would make an excellent 
> topic for discussion.

Agreed.

Rafael