Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:32:59 +0100 | From | Stefan Seyfried <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status |
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:19:13PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Pá 10-02-06 09:06:43, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > Ok. Maybe i am not seeing the point. But why do we need this in the kernel? > > Can't we handles this easily in userspace? > > Some kernel parts need to now: for example powernow-k8: some
we can tell them from userspace.
> frequencies are not allowed when you are running off battery. [Just > now it is solved by not allowing those frequencies at all unless ACPI > is available; quite an ugly solution.]
And this is a reason to include it in the kernel? Pavel? Is it you? What have they done to you? ;-)
I mean - we are moving suspend and everything to userspace, so i wonder why this has to be in kernel. -- Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write." SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen - 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/
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