On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 06:34:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Any sort of media streaming would be an obvious example - the
> > > application picks the amount of data it buffers and how often it's
> > > notified of progress depending on the usage which then controls how
> > > quickly the system needs to handle things.
> 
> > Well, what about other types of devices?
> 
> Other than the input case (which is a latency issue - there's two
> components, one is how much data is delivered for things like
> touchscreens which stream and the other is how quickly the first data is
> delivered) nothing immediately springs to mind but this may just be a
> product of what I'm most familiar with.  I don't really see this as a
> problem, for a lot of devices it's probably the case that the device can
> figure out something sensible to do without any help.

I guess you mean the driver here and I'm not really sure it can.
For instance, the driver may not know what configuration it works in,
e.g. is there a power domain or a hierarchy of those and how much time
it takes to power them all down and up and what the power break even is.

Thanks,
Rafael
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