linux-kernel - Re: Cryogenic: Enabling Power-Aware Applications on Linux

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Message-ID: <5349C09D.8000906@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:39:25 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Christian Grothoff <christian@...thoff.org>
CC:	Alejandra Morales <alejandra.morales@....de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cryogenic: Enabling Power-Aware Applications on Linux

On 04/12/2014 04:36 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, but the API needs redoing, anyway, fcntl()?
>>
>> Depends --- while I like the idea, I did not hear enough to be
>> certain that having this feature embedded in such a non-modular
>> way was already the consensus (and I do not see a reasonable
>> way to change the API this way while maintaining the modularity
>> of the current code).
> 
> Being modular is not important for small piece of code like
> this. Having reasonable interface is...
> 

Yes, it is critical.

	-hpa


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