From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Igor Stoppa Subject: Re: PowerOp Design and working patch Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:12:02 +0300 Message-ID: <1155035522.11382.64.camel@Dogbert.NOE.nokia.com> References: <1c70fd37e4eb876295e0194e2b8725d6@mvista.com> <44CBB1E0.3030908@gmail.com><62e4476a851bbed395b509023edc5c5c@mvista.com> <215c230e2979117fd14d83ea2fd83054@embeddedalley.com> <287a694aae15b3fba505f4381c95c9c8@mvista.com><44CFA2F5.1070707@am.sony.com> <20060806221104.GB4205@ucw.cz><44D7985B.6080508@am.sony.com> <20060808100723.GC4442@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060808100723.GC4442@elf.ucw.cz> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: ext Pavel Machek Cc: David Singleton , linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, david singleton List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 13:07 +0300, ext Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > = > > >> Often, in the embedded world, the person defining the operating > > >> states will not be a kernel developer, and may not be comfortable > > >> with, or capable of, creating a kernel module. (There are > > > > > > That's okay, we can create HOWTO or something. 'System designed is > too > > > stupid to hack kernel' should not be an argument. > > > > It's not a matter of stupidity. The example I gave of not being > > able to create a kernel module was the situation where loadable > > module support is not available. A HOWTO wouldn't alter this. > = > So they need to recompile the kernel. Not a big deal when you are > developing new machine. > = 1 time yes, several maybe, thousands no. think about it as finding minimums in a n-dimensional discrete function: you really don't want to recompile a kernel each time -- = Cheers, Igor Igor Stoppa (Nokia M - OSSO / Tampere)