On Wednesday, March 07, 2012, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 06/03/12 23:14, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 06, 2012, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> >> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 04/03/12 02:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> The goal of this patchset is to allow user space to control the
> >>>> responsiveness of the MMC stack related to runtime power management.
> >>>
> >>> I wonder why this is build into mmc and not just a generic runtime pm
> >>> facility. e.g.
> > 
> > Because of the user space interface (it doesn't necessarily make sense
> > for all devices) and to allow drivers to opt-in (if they don't, the 
> > interface
> > won't be created), which is not possible at the core level (we don't know in
> > advance what drivers will handle the given devices and if they will support
> > PM QoS).
> 
> Even "opt-in" is undesirable, because it is really up to userspace not the
> driver.
> 
> > 
> >>>   /* Set maximum resume latency target to 100ms */
> >>>   pm_runtime_set_max_latency(dev, 100);
> >>>
> >>> And then runtime pm will create sysfs attributes etc
> >>
> >> +1. Having to do essentially exactly the same for each driver subsystem 
> >> seems counterproductive.
> > 
> > Other subsystems need not do that in the same way.
> 
> Maybe this needs to be re-thought.  Userspace needs a simple, consistent and
> understandable set of pm controls across the entire kernel, not piecemeal
> across different subsystems.

Well, that's my opinion too, but other people don't seem to agree with it.

Thanks,
Rafael
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