Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274820AbTGaQan (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:30:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274821AbTGaQan (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:30:43 -0400 Received: from natsmtp00.webmailer.de ([192.67.198.74]:52423 "EHLO post.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274820AbTGaQal (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:30:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3F294461.2020902@softhome.net> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:31:29 +0200 From: "Ihar \"Philips\" Filipau" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Rini CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 971 Lines: 25 Tom Rini wrote: > > Power Management, sysfs plays / will play a role in finding out the order > in which devices get powered down. This is important on some types of > embedded devices (and arguably important everywhere). > You are contradicting to yourself. I have participated in creation of two specialized embedded systems, and currently going into third one. Every system were need some specialized shutdown sequence. None of them were need power saving. Please do not generalize your particular system to everything else. No one needs another self-aware self-configurable software subsystem, which intended to do the task of the engineers. Especially when this task takes 15 minutes to code. - 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/