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

Pavel Machek
2006-09-11T22:43:13Z

On Mon 2006-09-11 14:53:03, Mark Gross wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:20:25AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Is this just trying delay power op getting into the kernel? We are
> building up / evolving a PM stack from bottom up and you want to the
> high level interface to be well defined and agreed upon first?

As long as you do not introduce _any_ user<->kernel interfaces within
patch series, going without Documentation is okay. But IIRC that was
not the case.

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