From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Cc: Alejandra Morales <alejandra.morales@tum.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cryogenic: Enabling Power-Aware Applications on Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:39:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5349C09D.8000906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140412113653.GA10806@Nokia-N900>
On 04/12/2014 04:36 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, but the API needs redoing, anyway, fcntl()?
>>
>> Depends --- while I like the idea, I did not hear enough to be
>> certain that having this feature embedded in such a non-modular
>> way was already the consensus (and I do not see a reasonable
>> way to change the API this way while maintaining the modularity
>> of the current code).
>
> Being modular is not important for small piece of code like
> this. Having reasonable interface is...
>
Yes, it is critical.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-12 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-19 15:55 Cryogenic: Enabling Power-Aware Applications on Linux Alejandra Morales
2014-03-20 20:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-20 21:06 ` Joe Perches
2014-04-11 10:19 ` Pavel Machek
2014-04-11 18:48 ` Christian Grothoff
2014-04-11 22:05 ` Pavel Machek
2014-04-11 23:51 ` Christian Grothoff
2014-04-12 0:10 ` David Lang
2014-04-12 11:36 ` Pavel Machek
2014-04-12 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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