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

Pavel Machek
2006-09-11T20:34:42Z

On Tue 2006-09-12 00:24:25, Eugeny S. Mints wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:

> >>>I was talking about kernel<->user interface.
> >>me too. PowerOP is inkernel interface but which _allows_ to build various
> >>different kernel<->user interfaces on top of it. This PowerOP _advantage_
> >>allows community to experiment with various kernel<->user interfaces
> >>on top
> >
> >Kernel interface is not something to be experimented with.
> it is since current interface (cpufreq in conjunction with
> /sys/power/state, etc) does not address all requirements to the
>interface.

Removing kernel interface takes 2+ years. So no, kernel interface is
not something to be experimented with, at least not on mainline.

> >Actually that's good idea. Submit powerop without doing _any_ kernel
> >interface changes, so we can see that it makes sense...
> It was submitted this way several times.

So try again, and cc lkml this time.
Pavel
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