Update on DeviceKit

[Michael Biebl]

2008/5/8 Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:41:40PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
>> That's a bogus argument. I personally e.g. use the powersave governor
>> quite often.
>> When I'm on battery
>
> You're reducing your battery life. Don't do that.
>
>> when I don't want the fan to make noise etc.
>
> Now this is a more interesting issue. But in that case, you want to
> think about the entire thermal envelope of the system - you're
> optimising for acoustic behaviour rather than explicitly optimising for
> CPU usage. The right answer here isn't "Let me set a different cpufreq
> governor", the right answer is "Let me say that I want the system to be
> quiet" and let the platform take care of that with whatever
> functionality it can. Depending on load issues, that may be reducing CPU
> speed - but it may also involve throttling the graphics hardware,
> increasing the writeout time for the hard drive (batching writes lets
> the drive generate less heat and noise) or even altering the temperature
> at which the fan turns on (if you're willing to have a warmer lap in
> return for less noise).
>
>> There are a lot of use cases.
>
> Yes. They're all wrong.

I'm not sure if you try to be funny. But I don't think use cases are
wrong just because you say so.

Amused,
Michael


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