Re: Dynanic On-The-Fly Operating points for PowerOP

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

>         2) The naming scheme for operating points has been unified to
>         provide a better interface to the PowerOp power manager daemon.
>         The names range from:
> 
>                         highest
>                         high
>                         medhigh
>                         medium
>                         medlow
>                         low
>                         lowest
> 
>         PowerOp maps the supported processor frequencies onto this
>         namespace list.  The set of centrino processors it supports have
>         supported sets of between four and six different operating points.
> 
>         The PowerOP daemon, coming soon, can simply read the supported
>         set of operating points and make some simple rules based
>         decisions about when to transition to various operating points.
> 
>         The goal of a unified name space is to provide a PowerOp manager
>         that runs out of the box, with very little setup by the user.

Well, we already have perfectly working API for frequency management,
why not use that?

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