Update on DeviceKit

[Holger Macht]

On Thu 08. May - 13:35:11, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:27:17PM +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> > On Wed 07. May - 12:11:00, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> > >  - Is CPUFreq still something we want?
> > 
> > Yes, to be able to do fine-tuning, but with a slightly different interface
> > that in current HAL.
> 
> I'm not convinced that fine tuning is something that can be done in a 
> generic way. It's going to be kernel specific, and there's no sense in 
> having it tweakable at a per-user level. Trying to fit it into any sort 
> of dbus interface would basically just be exposing the sysfs interface 
> over dbus, which doesn't sound like a great idea...

We're already doing this quite successful.

SetCPUFreqPerformance method abstracts all the different sysfs entries of
CPUFreq with one single setting (1 to 100, corresponding to the
performance you get).

Regards,
	Holger