Re: community PM requirements/issues and PowerOP [Was: Re: So, what's the status on the recent patches here?]

Pavel Machek
2006-09-11T08:20:25Z

Hi!

On Mon 2006-09-11 11:57:28, Eugeny S. Mints wrote:
> [snip]
> >> Are you arguing that the cpufreq interface be morphed to support power
> >> op applications?
> >
> > No. I'm arguing that
> >
> > * cpufreq interface should be used for changing cpu frequency
> the patch set i sent out has cpufreq used for changing cpu frequency,
> hasn't it?

I was talking about kernel<->user interface.

You did echo low > something to change CPU frequency, IIRC.

> can we eventually start talking more close to the code rather than
> speculating without it?

Lets get kernel<->user interface right, first. You'll need to create
Documentation/ entries for your interfaces, eventually, so lets do
that, first, and then talk about code. Oh and it would be nice to cc
lkml on that document, too. New kernel<->user interface is not
decision taken lightly.
Pavel
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