Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756754AbaDLWkJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 18:40:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57535 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750833AbaDLWkH (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 18:40:07 -0400 Message-ID: <5349C09D.8000906@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:39:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek , Christian Grothoff CC: Alejandra Morales , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Cryogenic: Enabling Power-Aware Applications on Linux References: <9E3F9C2076C45D4783F09B90D5BE77CE1AEF7A@BADWLRZ-SWMBX13.ads.mwn.de> <20140411101926.GA27234@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <534838E8.10005@grothoff.org> <20140411220517.GA1203@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <53487FE7.2040604@grothoff.org> <20140412113653.GA10806@Nokia-N900> In-Reply-To: <20140412113653.GA10806@Nokia-N900> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/12/2014 04:36 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >>> Hmm, but the API needs redoing, anyway, fcntl()? >> >> Depends --- while I like the idea, I did not hear enough to be >> certain that having this feature embedded in such a non-modular >> way was already the consensus (and I do not see a reasonable >> way to change the API this way while maintaining the modularity >> of the current code). > > Being modular is not important for small piece of code like > this. Having reasonable interface is... > Yes, it is critical. -hpa -- 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/