On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:33:09 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

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> > And yes, I do agree that the heuristic could well involve other 
> > characteristics of the process in question. And probably
> > characteristics of the machine itself (ie some general kind of
> > "power mode" where timers are simply not considered critical if you
> > want to be in low-power mode).
> 
> HAL and dbus already deal with this sort of stuff, including now
> having a notion of 'on battery' and the like so if its in sysfs it
> ceases to be the kernels problem ;)

(side note: "on battery" is the worst possible measure for doing 'do I
need to be power sensitive', but you knew that already)


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