Update on DeviceKit

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 04:52:50PM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008, Holger Macht wrote:
> > You always get more performance for the price of more power
> > consumption. And having less performance results in lower power
> > consumption and in a non ideal world, you might cope with more latency. At
> > least this should be the goal. How can you say it doesn't work? It _does_.
> 
> And I see no reason why we should provide such a interface. Nobody force you 
> to use it and if you don't touch it, it do whatever the default on your 
> machine is (I assume ondemand gov.). But there are always users (and 
> usecases) where e.g. a single laptop user or a desktop user want to be able  
> to incluence the settings without touching sysfs (where you need to be root 
> to change something).

The reason not to provide it is that the only purpose of such an 
interface is to consume more power.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org