Am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2006 02:03 schrieb David Brownell: > > The power management functions without > > timeout are also exported. For other power control features like > > cpu frequency considerable effort has been made to export them to > > user space. > > Yes, and many of us use the much lighter weight kernel based control > models by preference. Why waste hundreds of Kbytes of userspace for > a daemon when a few hundred bytes of kernel code can implement a > better and more reactive kernel policy for cpufreq? That's an important aspect. How about implementing autosuspend first and keeping the sysfs-based suspension for now? If autosuspend is done, we have something to compare too. If a different solution emerges to be advantagous under some conditions we can talk about the interface later. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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