On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:05:54AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, March 07, 2012, Adrian Hunter wrote: > > Maybe this needs to be re-thought. Userspace needs a simple, consistent and > > understandable set of pm controls across the entire kernel, not piecemeal > > across different subsystems. > Well, that's my opinion too, but other people don't seem to agree with it. Well, it depends on what the knob is. Some things definitely make sense being generic (like the existing support for disabling runtime PM) but people have suggested stuff like fiddling with IRQ latencies which really seems far too detailed a thing to be twiddling from userspace and fairly obscure in the system level impact so difficult for applications to take advantage of usefully.
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