Re: A simple cpufreq(9)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 09:46:12AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 04:33:07PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> > i think that joerg's point is that the kernel<->user API is the
> > wrong place to be making these sorts of "humanisations".
> 
> You all miss the point that these "humanisations" (a.k.a. abstractions) are
> primarily targeted for the use in sys/kern. The kernel<->user API is just a
> convenient side product of these abstractions.

For the in-kernel use it should be completely irrelevant what the
property is. Any automatic mechanism should only care about the
associated properties (latency, reduction in power consumption etc). I
don't see any of that addressed at this point either.

Joerg