Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 10/6/2013 1:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: and if you wonder what linux does today without the framework; there are mechanisms that kick in at the very end of the range, that are very draconian like taking the 3.0Ghz processor down to effectively 100MHz, or even a system reboot. The point of what

Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 October 2013, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >On 10/4/2013 4:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I hope this is a better explanation. :) >>> >>> The idea of power capping is to cap total power not power down What is the difference to us if it wrecks a $1000 part, or a $100,000 machine? >>> a

Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-06 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 10/4/2013 4:17 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: I hope this is a better explanation. :) The idea of power capping is to cap total power not power down and also need root level access to modify. No. Restricting it to root control only is NOT an option. There has to be some mechanism whereby the us

Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 October 2013, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: >On 10/04/2013 01:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: [and snipped] >>> >> patch or patch-set in general? >> >> Not that my relatively untrained eyes can spot. >> >>> This change added powercap directory to the kernel build. Is something >>> wrong wi

Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-04 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
On 10/04/2013 01:22 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 October 2013, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: On 10/04/2013 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 October 2013, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: Added changes to Makefile and Kconfig to include in driver build. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruv

Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-04 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
On 10/04/2013 12:24 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 October 2013, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: Added changes to Makefile and Kconfig to include in driver build. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/Make

Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 04 October 2013, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote: >Added changes to Makefile and Kconfig to include in driver build. > >Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada >Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan >Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki >--- > drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++ > drivers/Makefile | 1 + > 2 files changed, 3 inser

[PATCH v2 3/6] PowerCap: Added to drivers build

2013-10-04 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
Added changes to Makefile and Kconfig to include in driver build. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki --- drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++ drivers/Makefile | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/Kconfig b/drivers/Kconfig index