On 11/05/08 17:11, Eric Saxe wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pm-discuss mailing list > pm-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-discuss >
+1. Bill
