Re: [PATCH 1/2] linaro-pm-qa-utils: Add power management test utils

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2014-03-19 16:38, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 13:29 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> Op 18 mrt. 2014, om 12:56 heeft Chase Maupin <Chase.Maupin@ti.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>>
>>>> * The power management test utilities from Linaro can be used
>>>>  to test multiple PM features such as cpufreq, cpuidle, thermal
>>>>  control and suspend operations.
>>>> * These utilities are not platform specific and can be used by
>>>>  a broader base of users.
>>>
>>> PN should me 'pm-qa' or 'pm-qa-utils'.
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>>>  And it would fit better in meta-oe since it's not 'core' enough for oe-core.
>>
>> I'm open to discussion on that. Certainly if there is just one user,
>> meta-oe would be appropriate. If these are generically useful and the
>> plan is we integrate these into the larger automated test picture,
>> oe-core may make sense.
>>
>> So if there a bigger picture plan here? Would these make sense in the
>> broader picture?
> 
> I prefer if this is done in meta-oe first and we move to oe-core when
> needed. For now it is at very beginning so we still does not know what
> will be the real final picture of t.
> 

What are you afraid of?  Putting this in OE-core _may_ make sense
if it serves a larger community, but having it there will not be
destabilizing, so why not?

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