Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755918AbZFHN6U (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:58:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755628AbZFHN6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:58:06 -0400 Received: from smtp-out003.kontent.com ([81.88.40.217]:53427 "EHLO smtp-out003.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755627AbZFHN6F convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:58:05 -0400 From: Oliver Neukum To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: Run-time PM idea (was: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PM: Rearrange core suspend code) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:58:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.21-0.1-default; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Matthew Garrett , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Alan Stern , pm list , ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , Magnus Damm References: <20090608133215.GA15482@srcf.ucam.org> <20090608134647.GA14234@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090608134647.GA14234@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906081558.49860.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 19 Am Montag, 8. Juni 2009 15:46:47 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > ( Providing a way to _override_ those defaults is of course natural, > ? via /sysfs, should the user express an interest in tweaking it, or > ? should the kernel get it so wrong that a distro wants to work it > ? around. But your argument seems to be "push configuration and > ? handling into user-space" which is really backwards. ) If we agree that the default shall be that the kernel doesn't switch off features of the hardware for power saving by default, does this make a practical difference to keeping the configuration in user space? Regards Oliver -- 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/