Subject: [PATCH V3 00/10] PM: Create the AVS(Adaptive Voltage Scaling)

From: [email-masked] (Kevin Hilman)
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:51:14 -0700

Rafael,

Keerthy <[email-masked]> writes:

> From: J Keerthy <[email-masked]>
>
> 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.

Thanks,

Kevin