Yes, having a interface which can also control clocks is great. I used to
write some code myself to debug clocks, so I have the same feeling with what
you said.

BTW, 'cheers' is normally used in Australia and New Zealand. Are you from
there? Just curious. :)

Yong

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Sundar <sunder.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Hilman
> <khil...@deeprootsystems.com> wrote:
> >
> [..]
> >
> > That being said, I'm not against $SUBJECT patch, but I question it's
> > usefulness in terms of PM.  What's more valuable for PM is the statitics
> > and knobs exported on a per-device level by the runtime PM core (and
> > AFAICT, already included into tools like powertop.)
> >
> IIRC, Vincent's suggestion is more valid for the HW guys who want to test
> out all kinds of possibilities *before* the OS and the support for the
> drivers
> becomes mature enough to concentrate on statistics and so on. Even I
> remember
> our HW guys requesting for bersek controls over regulators and clocks as a
> part
> of platform validation, when the OS was not mature enough in terms of a
> complete
> system-support.
>
> Cheers!
>
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