Re: Run-time PM idea (was: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PM: Rearrange core suspend code)

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Mon Jun 08 2009 - 09:58:24 EST


Am Montag, 8. Juni 2009 15:46:47 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> ( Providing a way to _override_ those defaults is of course natural,
>   via /sysfs, should the user express an interest in tweaking it, or
>   should the kernel get it so wrong that a distro wants to work it
>   around. But your argument seems to be "push configuration and
>   handling into user-space" which is really backwards. )

If we agree that the default shall be that the kernel doesn't switch
off features of the hardware for power saving by default, does this
make a practical difference to keeping the configuration in user space?

Regards
Oliver

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