Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] Documentation: Add documentation for new platform_profile sysfs attribute

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On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 10:46 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 12/2/20 6:11 PM, Mark Pearson wrote:
> > On modern systems the platform performance, temperature, fan and other
> > hardware related characteristics are often dynamically configurable. The
> > profile is often automatically adjusted to the load by some
> > automatic-mechanism (which may very well live outside the kernel).
> >
> > These auto platform-adjustment mechanisms often can be configured with
> > one of several 'platform-profiles', with either a bias towards low-power
> > consumption or towards performance (and higher power consumption and
> > thermals).
> >
> > Introduce a new platform_profile sysfs API which offers a generic API for
> > selecting the performance-profile of these automatic-mechanisms.
> >
> > Co-developed-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <markpearson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you, patches 1 and 2 look good to me now, you may add my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> To patch 2 (since I'm co-author of patch 1 it would be a bit weird
> to add it there too).
>
> Rafael, it would be great if you pick up patches 1 and 2 for merging
> into 5.11 (assuming that you agree that they are ready) then I will merge
> patch 3 once 5.11-rc1 is out.

I've applied patch [1/2] (as 5.11-rc material) for now, but I still
needed to fix it up somewhat.  Please check the result in my
bleeding-edge branch.

I'll get to the other patch tomorrow.

Thanks!



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