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

Pavel Machek
2006-09-14T13:03:11Z

> Pavel,

> > > operating points it is possible to implement the "cpufreq frequency
> > > selection logic" in user space and having such functionality in the kernel
> > > just violates the main rule of having everything possible outside of the
> > > kernel.
> >
> > You got the rules wrong. "Keep the code out of kernel" is important
> > rule, but probably not the main one.
>
> from aside, it looks like you're choosing 'rules' and assign then
> 'priorities' in a too arbitrary way which is by a strange accident
> fits your point of view best of all.
> May I remind you that Linux world is not only laptops and Sharp Zaurus? ;)

Actually, laptops and zauruses seem to be the only "interesting"
machines from pm perspective. Then there are Motorola cellphones, but
Motorola tried hard not to enable users changing kernel... so they are
irrelevant.
Pavel
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