Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:09:13 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: add lowpower_idle sysctl |
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Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com> wrote: > > Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > >>Set some system-wide integer via a sysctl and let the particular > >>architecture decide how best to implement the currently-selected idle mode? > > > > I'm wondering whether the setting of these magic numbers can't be done > > using cpufreq infrastructure. > > I'd vote for using Patrick Mochel's PM subsystem and use a standard set > of identifiers that are mapped to a platform-specific idle behavior, in > much the same way as platform suspend modes are handled today. For > example, strings echoed to /sys/power/idle could be an interface. If > folks are amenable to this I'd be happy to supply a (generic) patch for it.
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