On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 11:44 +0200, Frank wrote: > Package: task-laptop > Version: 3.53 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > I wish that the package tlp (to save powers) and thermald (to control the > temperature) is included in task-laptop, which are quite useful for laptops. Power-saving modes are (unfortunately) a major source of bugs in hardware, firmware, and drivers. For that reason we should be cautious about enabling them. Currently device power-saving policies are mostly set by kernel drivers, and where they enable a power-saving mode by default they also tend to have long lists of workarounds for buggy devices. I don't think a task should include programs that override our kernel's defaults, as tlp appears to do. If we decide those defaults are bad then I think we should fix them in our kernel. As for thermald, I understand that it is important for some newer laptops. Does it quietly do nothing on other models? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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