On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 23:49 -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > this approach would allow the transition of ALL drivers to the new mode of > operation in one fell swoop, and then adding additional power management > features is just adding to the existing list rather then implementing new > functions. I have a concern with this approach though. It seems to assume that there is one global thing somewhere that sets the system state; in my experience that is the wrong approach; in fact there is a very definite evidence that there are many decisions on power that are to be made local at a high frequency. An example of this is the processor speed; the ondemand governer does exactly this for the cpus that can switch speeds fast; it's just impossible to beat such a local, fast decision with anything on a global scale. On the other hand, some things (the high level goals and constraints) are obviously global. However, your design seems to want to put the low level settings in a global thing, and that is just a mistake. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
