On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 08:13:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 7:38 PM Russell King (Oracle)
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

It probably depends on where you stand on power management and power
efficiency issues. Personally, I would like to see more effort put
into drivers to make them more power efficient, and I believe in the
coming years, power efficiency is going to become a big issue.

While in the ideal world I 100% agree with the approach, IRL we have
to deal with constantly degrading quality of the code and instead of
thinking about power management and efficiency the absence of APIs
such as discussed provokes not only creating the power management
inefficient code, but also memory leaks here and there.

The point of my previous reply that you quoted above was to make a
prediction, it wasn't a rejection of the approach.

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