Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763297AbZFORHO (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:07:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758463AbZFORG7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:06:59 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58611 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757155AbZFORG7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:06:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:06:55 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Brian Swetland Cc: Ian Molton , Russell King - ARM Linux , kernel list , linux-arm-kernel , san@android.com, rlove@google.com, Greg KH Subject: Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support Message-ID: <20090615170655.GF25040@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20090610213710.GA8472@elf.ucw.cz> <20090611082532.GE8592@elf.ucw.cz> <20090612150504.GA15084@elf.ucw.cz> <4A32D079.9030707@mnementh.co.uk> <20090612223141.GF17688@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1334 Lines: 29 > > Actually I agree with Brian here, this is better done at kernel level. > > > > OTOH, at least initially, it does not need to be done at all. It will > > make battery readings less reliable but hey... the battery meter does > > not work reliably anyway and estimating capacity left from voltage > > acceptably on other platforms... > > I'd agree. This stuff can wait until the core support is solid. I'd > fight harder for conditional support for wakelocks since that has a > much bigger impact on battery life (being able to know when it's safe > to power collapse in idle, etc), whereas this just improves the > accuracy of the battery gauging. Yes, wakelocks are more important than battery gauging... but they need core support :-(; and they can wait, too. Getting serial support & board-dream upstream are very good first steps (thanks!). I'm currently trying to get 2.6.30 + your series of 3 + framebuffer changes to boot. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/