On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 09:46:12AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 04:33:07PM +1000, matthew green wrote: > > i think that joerg's point is that the kernel<->user API is the > > wrong place to be making these sorts of "humanisations". > > You all miss the point that these "humanisations" (a.k.a. abstractions) are > primarily targeted for the use in sys/kern. The kernel<->user API is just a > convenient side product of these abstractions.
For the in-kernel use it should be completely irrelevant what the property is. Any automatic mechanism should only care about the associated properties (latency, reduction in power consumption etc). I don't see any of that addressed at this point either. Joerg
