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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 07 May 2012 16:51:14 -0700
From:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>
To:	Keerthy <j-keerthy@...com>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	<linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <rjw@...k.pl>,
	<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)

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.

Thanks,

Kevin

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/