Re: [GIT PULL] Power management updates for v5.11-rc2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jan 01 2021 - 16:16:09 EST


On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 8:51 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> - Add new power capping facility called DTPM (Dynamic Thermal Power
> Management), based on the existing power capping framework, to
> allow aggregate power constraints to be applied to sets of devices
> in a distributed manner, along with a CPU backend driver based on
> the Energy Model (Daniel Lezcano).

This seems very much a non-fix thing.

Please explain why I should accept this outside the merge window.

Linus