On Wednesday, February 18, 2009 9:52 am Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:48:04AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > I think "powernag" would be a better name, and it would probably work > > pretty well. Users would be notified that certain apps should probably > > be shut down while they're on battery, and nag the authors to fix it. > > How do you usefully tell the difference between an application that's > waking up a lot because it's dumb and an application that's waking up a > lot because it's doing something useful? One downside of powertop is > that it's resulted in a lot of "How do I reduce the number of wakeups > caused by i8042 whenever I use the mouse"-type questions. We don't want > innocent app writers to be hit by this kind of thing. Well Ben did mention that it would be hard to figure out a good set of heuristics, but a userspace app could be pretty flexible, allowing the user to whitelist apps they know are fine, average the data over a period of time, etc. Challenging, sure, but it should be possible to come up with something that's useful in many cases. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
