> On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Create /sys/power/policy_preference, giving user-space > > the ability to express its preference for kernel based > > power vs. performance decisions in a single place. > > > > This gives kernel sub-systems and drivers a central place > > to discover this system-wide policy preference. > > It also allows user-space to not have to be updated > > every time a sub-system or driver adds a new power/perf knob. > > I would prefer documenting all the current knobs and adding them to pm-utils > so that pm-powersave knows about and can manage them. Once that is done, > creating arbitrary powersave levels should be fairly simple. The idea here is to not require user-space to need updating whenever a future knob is invented. We can do a great job at documenting the past, but a poor job of documenting the future:-) cheers, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technolgy Center _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
