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From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:32:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060210123259.GB18577@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060210121913.GA4974@elf.ucw.cz>

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:19:13PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Pá 10-02-06 09:06:43, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

> > Ok. Maybe i am not seeing the point. But why do we need this in the kernel?
> > Can't we handles this easily in userspace?
> 
> Some kernel parts need to now: for example powernow-k8: some

we can tell them from userspace.

> frequencies are not allowed when you are running off battery. [Just
> now it is solved by not allowing those frequencies at all unless ACPI
> is available; quite an ugly solution.]

And this is a reason to include it in the kernel?
Pavel? Is it you? What have they done to you? ;-)

I mean - we are moving suspend and everything to userspace, so i wonder
why this has to be in kernel.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried                  \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices      \ wanted to be paid for what I write."
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg \                    -- Leonard Cohen

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-10 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-08 12:57 [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 13:03 ` [PATCH, RFC] [2/3] ACPI support for generic " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 13:04 ` [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 13:05   ` [PATCH, RFC] [3/3] APM support for generic " Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 16:58   ` [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic " Greg KH
2006-02-08 17:08     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-08 17:16       ` Greg KH
2006-02-08 17:49         ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-09  5:46           ` Greg KH
2006-02-09  8:53       ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-10 12:21         ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 13:13           ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-10 13:19             ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-10 13:54             ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 13:56               ` Gabor Gombas
2006-02-08 22:25   ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2006-02-10 12:21     ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10  8:06 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-02-10 12:19   ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-10 12:32     ` Stefan Seyfried [this message]
2006-02-10 13:46       ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-12 10:17         ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-12 11:27           ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-14 17:44     ` Thomas Renninger
2006-02-14 20:17       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-02-15 12:36         ` Thomas Renninger
2006-02-15 12:47           ` Matthew Garrett
2006-02-15 15:04             ` Thomas Renninger
2006-02-16 22:44           ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-16 22:39         ` Pavel Machek

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