Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 29 May 2015 at 02:34, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > > Users simply don't care. If Fedora depletes what used to be an 11-hour > battery on Windows/OS X in 6 hours instead, they'll simply switch back to > their former OS within a week. I have years of experience with this scenario > and I strongly thin

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-29 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
I respectfully acquiesce that making the kernel better is indeed the more elegant and sound goal, engineering-wise. But I really think that it's just not *realistic* to expect users to wait for kernel developers to fix the very complex and demanding issue of battery life before they can have a Fedo

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Jeremy Newton
>>* Do you think that the average user with a clicking sound card or disk *>>* corruption when suspending would be able to make the link to this new *>>* package?* > Even better ... the integrated mouse pointer on my external ThinkPad USB > keyboard stops working if USB suspend is enabled for this

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread David Sommerseth
On 28/05/15 12:57, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 28 May 2015 at 11:21, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: >> 1: My understanding is that tlp ships with a default configuration that, >> without any modification, will enable reasonable settings for power saving. > > I think what the kernel is providing is reason

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:18:21PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Doesn't tuned already do something similar to this? These are the exact words I just typed in another message. :) -- Matthew Miller Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedorapr

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On 05/28/2015 02:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Actually, it *does* sound like this package might provide a way to > mitigate that situation (single kernel). If tlp can accept a > configuration file for what tweaks to make, then we can use the per > -product config feature to allow us to set ce

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 11:57 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 28 May 2015 at 11:21, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > > 1: My understanding is that tlp ships with a default configuration > > that, > > without any modification, will enable reasonable settings for power > > saving. > > I think what the ker

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On 28 May 2015 at 11:21, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > 1: My understanding is that tlp ships with a default configuration that, > without any modification, will enable reasonable settings for power saving. I think what the kernel is providing is reasonable, from a regression / feature point of view. I

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > On 28 May 2015 at 10:45, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > > I would like to suggest that tlp [0] be included with Fedora Workstation > by > > default, starting with Fedora 23. > > Why can't we just use the correct defaults? Having a "configure all

Re: Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Hughes
On 28 May 2015 at 10:45, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > I would like to suggest that tlp [0] be included with Fedora Workstation by > default, starting with Fedora 23. Why can't we just use the correct defaults? Having a "configure all the things" version of powertop isn't going to help anybody but the

Including tlp in Fedora Workstation by default

2015-05-28 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Hi, I would like to suggest that tlp [0] be included with Fedora Workstation by default, starting with Fedora 23. tlp is already a well-maintained Fedora package [1], is quite stable, and achieves dramatic battery life and laptop optimization gains without having to run a daemon or a background pr