On 7/17/2012 12:13 PM, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I wonder if I might make a request for a new feature for powertop.
> 
> When I run it, I can toggle various tunable options from within the
> Powertop interface. As I understand it, the effect of these to invoke an
> underlying system command such as:
>   echo value > /sys/device/power/something
> 
> But powertop never actually tells me what these commands are. This means
> I can't easily append them to my own startup scripts, or make them
> persistent across reboots.
> 
> So my wish is as follows:
> 
> When powertop actually modifies the system, it should print the
> commands, to stderr, when it exits.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
Hi,

on the normal screen, there is not really enough real estate to put the
full command there.
however, if you run the --html report, it will give you these commands!

(the html page has a lot more space to put stuff)