linux-kernel - Re: Gethering power management/policy hw drivers under drivers/power/? (Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences)

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Message-ID: <20120801005117.GA1798@lizard>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:51:17 -0700
From:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Alex Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>, Jean Pihet <j-pihet@...com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>,
	MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gethering power management/policy hw drivers under
 drivers/power/? (Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power
 sequences)

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:59:39PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
[...]
> > Well, currently drivers/power/ is indeed just for power supply class
> > subsystem and drivers. But if the trend is to gather power management
> > ("policy") stuff under one directory, i.e.
> > 
> > drivers/
> >   power/
> >     supplies/    <- former "power supply class and drivers"
> >     regulators/
> >     idle/
> >     cpuidle/
> >     cpufreq/
> >     devfreq/
> >     avs/
> >     ...
> > 
> > That would probably make sense, we could easily see the big picture.
> > But if we're not going to do this long-term,
> 
> Yes, we may do this eventually, but surely not right now.

OK, great! Then I'll probably start thinking about moving power supply
drivers into its own directory, maybe in 3.7.

Thanks!

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@...il.com
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