Re: So, what's the status on the recent patches here?

Pavel Machek
2006-08-25T19:55:43Z

On Thu 2006-08-24 16:58:50, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >This seems to be too specific to embedded machine.
> >> >
> >> >If userspace wants to work with usb and play mp3s at the same time,
> >> >what does it do?
> >>
> >> I guess it just defines an appropriate policy. You can call it
> >> 'usb_mp3' if you wish ;)
> >> I don't think it's too embedded-specific.
> >
> >Well, it leads to exponential number of policies -- not nice. Having
> >usb_mp3_fileserver_webserver is not nice.
>
> No. The reason is there's no _real_ difference in 'fileserver' and
> 'webserver' from the PM POV, so this will never happen.
> There's no reason to introduce different policies for different use
> cases which however imply similar peripherals utilization.
> Moreover, I never play MP3s on a fileserver/webserver. The example
> you've given is pretty much artificial.

My notebook has 23 different devices. Do you really want to have
8388608 policies for different perihepal utilizations?

Pavel
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