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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>,
	Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Smart Battery System Design (was: Re: Question about userspace-consumer)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:34:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090815223434.GB27637@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090815164324.GA4252@sirena.org.uk>

On Sat 2009-08-15 17:43:24, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:32:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Please don't put basic fastcharge logic to userspace:
> 
> > * you still want to fastcharge at init=/bin/bash boot
> 
> > * you want to fastcharge while machine is in s2ram. See spitz. Doing
> >   that with userspace would be quite tricky.
> 
> Depending on the technologies involved and how well integrated the power
> path management is with the battery charger fast charge during suspend
> may not actually be desirable.  Some systems need or desire active
> thermal management of the system from the CPU during fast charge.

Do you have example of some system?

Ok, well... anyway many machines _want_ fastcharge while suspended,
and putting charging into userland would break them (or make that
fairly difficult).
									Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-15 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-10 20:05 Question about userspace-consumer Felipe Balbi
2009-08-10 21:58 ` Mark Brown
2009-08-11  5:44   ` Felipe Balbi
2009-08-11  9:40     ` Mark Brown
2009-08-11 10:30       ` Liam Girdwood
2009-08-11 20:49         ` Smart Battery System Design (was: Re: Question about userspace-consumer) Felipe Balbi
2009-08-11 20:59           ` Felipe Balbi
2009-08-11 22:36           ` Mark Brown
2009-08-12  6:47             ` Felipe Balbi
2009-08-12 10:05               ` Mark Brown
2009-08-12 19:07                 ` Felipe Balbi
2009-08-12 22:53                   ` Mark Brown
2009-08-14 16:32             ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-15 16:43               ` Mark Brown
2009-08-15 22:34                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-08-16  9:18                   ` Mark Brown
2009-08-22  9:28                     ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-22 10:16                       ` Mark Brown
2009-08-21 14:01                         ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-22 14:16                           ` Mark Brown
2009-08-22 19:35                             ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-23  9:08                               ` Mark Brown
2009-08-11 12:09     ` Question about userspace-consumer Mike Rapoport
2009-08-11 12:56       ` Mark Brown
2009-08-11 20:40         ` Felipe Balbi
2009-08-14 16:31     ` Pavel Machek

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