Am Dienstag 07 Juni 2011, 15:48:11 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > I'm open to suggestions. > > Hi, > > I would like some more opinions on this from people on the list. > So initially my plan was to, instead of powertop show the shell > tunables, document these in a website/document instead. > That way there could be a better explanation of gotcha's, kernel > versions etc etc.... think of it like a wiki. > > but people keep kinda wanting these things from the powertop program > directly..... > am I very wrong with the documentation idea? if so... yes we need > something like your patch. > I like both approaches, but the documentation approach lacks one big thing - the documentation ;)
I mean it's been 6 months since the second alpha of powertop 2.0 : Peter > Maybe a "help" option for each tunable would be great (e.g. press h to display a short help text which describes the tunable, with its possible consequences and savings), and a description how to change the setting manually. Arjan> I was thinking of documenting this on a webpage instead, because there > I have much more space to explain things... > (and not the 3 lines I have in current powertop 1.13) But maybe a combination of both would be good - short version in powertop, long version on the wiki. Peter _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] https://bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
