From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Seyfried Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:32:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20060210123259.GB18577@suse.de> References: <20060208125753.GA25562@srcf.ucam.org> <20060210080643.GA14763@suse.de> <20060210121913.GA4974@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:31898 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbWBJMdC (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:33:02 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060210121913.GA4974@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:19:13PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On P=E1 10-02-06 09:06:43, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Ok. Maybe i am not seeing the point. But why do we need this in the= kernel? > > Can't we handles this easily in userspace? >=20 > Some kernel parts need to now: for example powernow-k8: some we can tell them from userspace. > frequencies are not allowed when you are running off battery. [Just > now it is solved by not allowing those frequencies at all unless ACPI > is available; quite an ugly solution.] And this is a reason to include it in the kernel? Pavel? Is it you? What have they done to you? ;-) I mean - we are moving suspend and everything to userspace, so i wonder why this has to be in kernel. --=20 Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write.= " SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, N=FCrnberg \ -- Leonard Co= hen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html