linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling)

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 15:40:30 -0700
From:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
To:	"J\, KEERTHY" <j-keerthy@...com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	j-pihet@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling)

Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com> writes:

> "J, KEERTHY" <j-keerthy@...com> writes:
>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:16 AM, J, KEERTHY <j-keerthy@...com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com> wrote:
>>>> Rafael,
>>>>
>>>> Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> From: J Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>
>>>>>
>>>>> AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling) is a power management technique which
>>>>> controls the operating voltage of a device in order to optimize (i.e. reduce)
>>>>> its power consumption. The voltage is adapted depending on static factors
>>>>> (chip manufacturing process) and dynamic factors (temperature
>>>>> depending performance).
>>>>> The TI AVS solution is named Smartreflex.
>>>>>
>>>>> To that end, create the AVS driver in drivers/power/avs and
>>>>> move the OMAP SmartReflex code to the new directory. The
>>>>> class driver is still retained in the mach-omap2 directory.
>>>>
>>>> How should we handle this for upstream?
>>>>
>>>> It does a bunch of cleanup under arch/arm then does the move to
>>>> drivers/power the end.  To avoid conflicts with other OMAP core changes,
>>>> I would suggest we take this through the OMAP tree.
>>>>
>>>> With your ack, I'd be glad to take it.
>>>
>>> Hello Rafael,
>>>
>>> A gentle ping on this series.
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> This series has Kevin's comments incorporated.
>>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> Can i have your Ack for this series?
>>
>
> Well, as mentioned above, I'm waiting for Rafael's ack, then I will
> merge it.
>
> Because of all the arch/arm/mach-omap2/* changes, I would like to merge
> this via the OMAP tree to avoid conflicts with other stuff we have
> changing in arch/arm/mach-omap2/*

OK, I had an off-line discussion with Rafael and he's OK that I take
these.  I will add an ack from Rafael and queue this series up for v3.6.

Thanks,

Kevin
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