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

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