Re: PowerOp Design and working patch

david singleton
2006-07-29T05:12:26Z

Greg,
perhaps I need to back up a bit. I wasn't submitting these patches
for inclusion into Linux. I was presenting them to the people
discussing
how power management might evolve in Linux.

This patch is just a toy prototype to use as a strawman to discuss
how power management infrastructures in Linux might evolve to be more:

a) unified

and
b) simplified for both kernel and user space.

The Documentation/powerop.txt included in the powerop-core.patch
tries to describe what the patch is attempting to do and how it works.

David

On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:38:11PM -0700, david singleton wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:31:41PM -0700, david singleton wrote:
>>>> Here is a patch that implements a version of the PowerOp concept.
>>>
>>> Any chance of breaking this up into logical patches that do one thing
>>> at
>>> a time so it can be reviewed better?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>>
>> Here's powerop-core.patch, powerop-cpufreq.patch and
>> powerop-x86-centrino.patch.
>
> Um, no, that's not how kernel patches are submitted. How about one per
> email, with a description of what they do, inline so we can quote them
> in a message (and actually read them in the original message...)
>
> See patches posted here by others as examples of what is expected, and
> see Documentation/SubmittingPatches for more details.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h