[PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling)
J, KEERTHY
j-keerthy at ti.com
Thu May 31 23:45:45 EDT 2012
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> wrote:
> Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> writes:
>
>> "J, KEERTHY" <j-keerthy at ti.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:16 AM, J, KEERTHY <j-keerthy at ti.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com> wrote:
>>>>> Rafael,
>>>>>
>>>>> Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: J Keerthy <j-keerthy at ti.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To that end, create the AVS driver in drivers/power/avs and
>>>>>> move the OMAP SmartReflex code to the new directory. The
>>>>>> class driver is still retained in the mach-omap2 directory.
>>>>>
>>>>> How should we handle this for upstream?
>>>>>
>>>>> It does a bunch of cleanup under arch/arm then does the move to
>>>>> drivers/power the end. To avoid conflicts with other OMAP core changes,
>>>>> I would suggest we take this through the OMAP tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> With your ack, I'd be glad to take it.
>>>>
>>>> Hello Rafael,
>>>>
>>>> A gentle ping on this series.
>>>
>>> Hi Greg,
>>>
>>> This series has Kevin's comments incorporated.
>>>
>>> Kevin,
>>>
>>> Can i have your Ack for this series?
>>>
>>
>> Well, as mentioned above, I'm waiting for Rafael's ack, then I will
>> merge it.
>>
>> Because of all the arch/arm/mach-omap2/* changes, I would like to merge
>> this via the OMAP tree to avoid conflicts with other stuff we have
>> changing in arch/arm/mach-omap2/*
>
> OK, I had an off-line discussion with Rafael and he's OK that I take
> these. I will add an ack from Rafael and queue this series up for v3.6.
Thanks Kevin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
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Regards and Thanks,
Keerthy
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