From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757575Ab2DZTME (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:12:04 -0400 Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk ([80.68.93.111]:46839 "EHLO cassiel.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756610Ab2DZTMD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:12:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:11:59 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Keerthy Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, khilman@ti.com, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, j-pihet@ti.com Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling) Message-ID: <20120426191159.GA9415@sirena.org.uk> References: <1335462041-4949-1-git-send-email-j-keerthy@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1335462041-4949-1-git-send-email-j-keerthy@ti.com> X-Cookie: Time and tide wait for no man. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cassiel.sirena.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:10:31PM +0530, Keerthy wrote: > From: J Keerthy > > AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling) is a power management technique which > controls the operating voltage of a device in order to optimize (i.e. reduce) > its power consumption. The voltage is adapted depending on static factors > (chip manufacturing process) and dynamic factors (temperature > depending performance). > The TI AVS solution is named Smartreflex. What's the relationship between this and existing things like devfreq and cpufreq? It'd be better if the changelogs made this clear and provided an overview of how all these different subsystems are intended to fit together.