On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 08:05:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, August 21, 2011, Mark Brown wrote: > > I don't understand why the driver would need to know what situation it's > > in. I'd been working on the basis that the idea was that the driver > > said what the constraints it has are and then some code with a more > > system wide view would make the actual decisions for things outside the > > driver domian. > That's correct, but in order to figure out a "sensible default" > the driver generally would need to know what the expectations with > respect to it are. Otherwise it can very well generate a random > number and use that. Right, but I'd expect that should be something that the driver can generally do based on knowledge of what it needs to deliver to its users. It doesn't need to be tunable to that - for example, input devices will have a reasonable idea of the response time needed to deliver interactive performance. If it's really got no idea then hopefully not providng any constraints will do something sensible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
