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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Modularize schedutil
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On Tuesday 12 May 2020 at 12:25:17 (+0200), Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Still, IMO it would be fair to say that if uclamps are used, schedutil
> is very likely to be preferred.
> 
> Kconfig can be made select schedutil when enabling uclamps or similar
> to express that preference.

Right, fair enough. Making schedutil default to y when uclamp is
compiled in should do the trick (and avoid using 'select'). Would that
work for you?

> What you are proposing is basically to add complexity and the reason
> for doing that seems to be convenience (and that's not the users'
> convenience for that matter) which is not really super-convincing.

Forcing our users to build in their products something they don't want
to use tends to be a very real problem for what we're trying to achieve,
so it's certainly not just convenience from our perspective. I can
understand that yours might be different, though.

Thanks,
Quentin