Gethering power management/policy hw drivers under drivers/power/? (Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, July 30, 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:51:42AM +0900, Alex Courbot wrote:
> [...]
> > On the other hand I have just noticed that the apparently unrelated
> > Adaptive Voltage Scaling driver just appeared in drivers/power/avs.
> > So if Anton and David are ok with this, maybe I could put the power
> > sequences code in its own subdirectory within drivers/power.
> 
> Well, currently drivers/power/ is indeed just for power supply class
> subsystem and drivers. But if the trend is to gather power management
> ("policy") stuff under one directory, i.e.
> 
> drivers/
>   power/
>     supplies/    <- former "power supply class and drivers"
>     regulators/
>     idle/
>     cpuidle/
>     cpufreq/
>     devfreq/
>     avs/
>     ...
> 
> That would probably make sense, we could easily see the big picture.
> But if we're not going to do this long-term,

Yes, we may do this eventually, but surely not right now.

Thanks,
Rafael