Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:32:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:32:38 -0500 Received: from 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk ([81.2.122.30]:4612 "EHLO 81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:32:38 -0500 From: John Bradford Message-Id: <200302191443.h1JEhvdm000194@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Subject: Re: Select voltage manually in cpufreq To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:43:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@suse.delinux@brodo.de In-Reply-To: <20030218220858.GA15273@f00f.org> from "Chris Wedgwood" at Feb 18, 2003 02:08:58 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 915 Lines: 24 > > Well, and does slow-low-power mean 300MHz, 1.4V as bios said, or > > 300MHz, 1.2V which is probably also safe? > > I have no idea... that's the point... the user almost never knows what > *exact* magic values are required, they just want fast-on-power or > slow-on-battery sort of thing. > > you pick two options, a slow and fast option; both should work Until you are working on an embedded system, and want the extra functionality. Whenever you have a lot of options, adding extra options to try to simplify things rarely achieves that. Good defaults, and good documentation are much more useful than yet another way to alter several variables at once. John. - 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/