Re: PowerOp Design and working patch

Igor Stoppa
2006-08-08T11:12:02Z

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

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Cheers,
Igor

Igor Stoppa (Nokia M - OSSO / Tampere)