I have read your response from 6/28/11 to this patch, and I am very dissapointed in the hypocritical nature of your decisions.
While I understand your reasoning in wanting to have a split between Power"top" and Power"tune", the latter currently doesn't exist, and as such we only have Powertop to work with. You argue that Powertop shouldn't give people the ability to script the changes and that it should be documented on a web page for them instead, however there are 3 problems with that under the current implementation. 1) When you run powertop, it gives you the ability to make changes to your system, however it doesn't tell you WHAT those changes actually are, or how to do them yourself. You argue that people shouldn't automatically be making changes without understanding them, yet you allow them to do so directly using Powertop by letting them toggle settings without telling them how to do it manually (and thus how to REVERSE them manually either). 2) There is currently NO webpage documenting the changes. If there was currently valid documentation, your arguments would carry much more weight. yet it has been almost 6 months since you first advocated doing so and I can't find any documentation of the power changes made by Powertop 2. As a result, people keep asking for ways to make the changes in scripts, regardless of the validity of your argument from a big-picture standpoint. 3) If powertop is supposed to be a purely diagnostic tool, then you should never have given people the ability to change tunables in the first place. By doing so, you have already validated people desire for automatic tuning on boot, and any attempt to tell them NOT to do so falls flat on its face. Please either accept the patch to generate a script of all the changes, or post your fabled documentation and point everyone to it. But stop being stubborn with your userbase just because you don't like them using your tool to do something that you gave them the ability to do yourself... Josh -- Joshua Megerman SJGames MIB #5273 - OGRE AI Testing Division You can't win; You can't break even; You can't even quit the game. - Layman's translation of the Laws of Thermodynamics [email protected] _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] https://bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
