2012-08-06 08:45:08

by Pihet-XID, Jean

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Subject: Re: Gethering power management/policy hw drivers under drivers/power/? (Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences)

Hi Anton,

Sorry for the late reply. I was away and back now.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:51:42AM +0900, Alex Courbot wrote:
> [...]
>> On the other hand I have just noticed that the apparently unrelated
>> Adaptive Voltage Scaling driver just appeared in drivers/power/avs.
>> So if Anton and David are ok with this, maybe I could put the power
>> sequences code in its own subdirectory within drivers/power.
>
> Well, currently drivers/power/ is indeed just for power supply class
> subsystem and drivers. But if the trend is to gather power management
> ("policy") stuff under one directory, i.e.
>
> drivers/
> power/
> supplies/ <- former "power supply class and drivers"
> regulators/
> idle/
> cpuidle/
> cpufreq/
> devfreq/
> avs/
> ...
>
> That would probably make sense, we could easily see the big picture.
> But if we're not going to do this long-term, I would suggest to stick
> to just a new directory under drivers (and move drivers/power/avs/ to
> drivers/avs).
>
> Cc'ing some more people...
>
> Thanks,
>
> p.s. Jean, why am I the last person who discovers drivers/power/avs/?
> Would be nice to Cc me on such patches; by moving AVS under
> drivers/power/ you effectively nominated me as its maintainer. :-)
Oops, I am really sorry about that ;-( . I wrongly assumed Rafael and
Greg KH were the contact persons for drivers/power and so I contacted
them before moving the code.

Thanks for letting me know. Are you ok with the changes? Let me know
if some more changes are needed.

Regards,
Jean

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