From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: "R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com>,
lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] A new Subsystem for Current Management
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:09:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111109120919.GB31441@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111108175749.2ef50f93@endymion.delvare>
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 05:57:49PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:54:26 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Actually the regulator API isn't really about power savings - it's about
> > voltage and current regulation. Higher layers can use these features to
> > save power but it's not somethnig the regulator API cares about. If the
> > documentation suggests it is we might want to fix that up.
> I came up to this conclusion after reading the CONFIG_REGULATOR help
> text in Kconfig. I'll let you decide if this should get improved in any
> way.
I think the current text is OK, it's saying that it allows other
subsystems do things which save power which is what's happening.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-05 7:13 A new Subsystem for Current Management R, Durgadoss
2011-11-05 13:42 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-11-05 16:36 ` [lm-sensors] " R, Durgadoss
2011-11-06 13:13 ` Jean Delvare
2011-11-08 16:54 ` Mark Brown
2011-11-08 16:57 ` Jean Delvare
2011-11-09 12:09 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-11-05 15:50 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-11-05 16:50 ` R, Durgadoss
2011-11-06 13:53 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2011-11-06 13:05 ` Jean Delvare
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