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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@nokia.com>,
	Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial debugfs support for omap clock framework
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:22:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804171422.26994.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804171422160.8530@utopia.booyaka.com>

On Thursday 17 April 2008, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> >
> > Userspace should limit itself to changing policies.
> 
> CPUFreq is good, but it does not manage non-CPU-frequency knobs very well, 
> and there are plenty of those on OMAP3.

Similar issues are widely acknowledged.


> Is there any reason why we should not allow the option of userspace OPP 
> selection/powerdomain control for OMAP?  If people don't want to use it, 
> they don't have to :-)

Sure, allow userspace controls.  Even use debugs to prototype
them.  Just don't build fragile interfaces ... don't expect
userspace code to do the equivalent of open heart surgery.

- Dave

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-16  8:44 [PATCH 1/1] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial sysfs support for omap clock framework Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-16  8:57 ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-16 13:20   ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-16 16:58 ` David Brownell
2008-04-16 20:51   ` Tony Lindgren
2008-04-17 14:09     ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial debugfs " Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-17 14:09       ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Remove procfs entry for debugging " Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-17 16:23       ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: OMAP: CLKFW: Initial debugfs support for omap " Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 18:40         ` David Brownell
2008-04-17 18:45           ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 18:54             ` David Brownell
2008-04-17 19:17               ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 18:57             ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-17 19:14               ` David Brownell
2008-04-17 19:44                 ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 19:49                   ` Igor Stoppa
2008-04-17 20:47                     ` Paul Walmsley
2008-04-17 21:22                       ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-04-18  7:08                       ` Igor Stoppa
2008-04-17 19:58                   ` Hiroshi DOYU
2008-04-21 18:40                     ` Tony Lindgren

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