On Jun 2, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Chase Douglas
<chase.doug...@canonical.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:40 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:30 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
I've been working on powersave policies in Ubuntu, where we've
created a
package with a bunch of scripts. You can find some scripts I've been
working on for Maverick at:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~chasedouglas/ubuntu/maverick/pm-utils-powersave-policy/updates/files/head:/power.d/
Take a look at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pm-utils/log/?h=powersave-hooks
I toyed around with adding more powersave scripts to pm-utils back in
2008, but there was a general lack of interest at the time. If
Ubuntu
is looking at adding more default powersaving scripts, it is
probaably
time to resurrect things.
If y'all want to work on merging your powersave scripts with pm-
utils,
we should be able to work something out. :)
Sounds good to me. What do I need to do to get some of these scripts
merged?
Give me a URL I can clone your tree into with git, or spam the list
with patches.
What I noticed is that the scheduling policies conflict with the
sched-powersave policy in pm-utils. I would like to propose that the
policy be removed from pm-utils, since it seems like it's on an
island.
It makes more sense to me to split the policy from the
implementation.
Well, if the policy was in general more complicated than "save as
much
battery life as we can while still beig useful" it might make sense
to
split it out. The only knobs I would offer by default would be ones
that would either always run with powersaving enabled or disabled
while
ignoring powersave state changes -- if people want to tweak how
individual powersave hooks work, pm-utils makes it very easy for
them to
drop in a hook that overrides the ones we ship by default.
How a user overrides a hook and how a distro overrides a hook is
different. The former is well defined, but the latter is not.
I had another patchset that made that well-defined, but I think I
nuked it a couple years ago. Rewriting it should be a trivial affair.
Mostly I'm just looking for some sort of agreement on how to handle
distro vs upstream pm hooks. If we want to merge some hooks upstream,
and have the distros manually shove specific hooks they don't want
into
somewhere else like /usr/share/doc/pm-utils/upstream-hooks/ when they
package it up, then that's fine with me. I'm open to any reasonable
way
to reconcile this issue :).
Thanks,
-- Chase
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