Randy Fishel wrote: > I would like to propose the following project to be sponsored by the > Power Management Community Group: > > Power Management Usability Interfaces > > Controlling and managing Power Management facilities currently is a > small collection of diverse tools that often manipulate objects > directly, or even require that a user edit a configuration file. And > many don't allow the user to identify or understand in-kernel values > without entering a debugger. As some tools need to duplicate > pathways, maintenance becomes a problem as all the tools need to be > identified and updated. > > Providing a well defined set of interfaces help to aleviate confusion, > and promote easy to use and easy to create tools. Maintenence and > security are also often confined to the element that exhibits the > problem. Some of this work may just result in improved documentation, > but there will also be a need for new and updated tools and > interfaces. > > I see this work falling into four distinct areas: > > A Power Management specific library (i.e. libpower) > Provides a committed set of programatic API's that > can be consumed by other tools, utilities, daemons, and GUI's > > Commands and Utilities > Predominantly updated and new CLI's, but could also be GUI's > that are expected to directly be us > > SMF facilities > New and improved services that can act standalone, or be > used as a repository for running state. > > Debug/Observability > Some of this might land in CLI, but could well include mdb > and dtrace enhancements (i.e. dtrace pm provider). > > > Initially I expect this work to focus in libpower, but there is the > likelyhood of effort in the other areas, as well as short-term binary > relief. This project will not necessarily limit itself to the above > areas, and could easily expand as the need presents itself. > > > > Comments? Votes? > Yes, +1.
Thanks, -Eric
