Bug 644801

Summary:	powertop does not shows what commands to run to replicate what it is doing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Need Real Name <lsof>
Component:	powertop	Assignee:	Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	ajax, jskarvad, jwboyer, lsof
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Description Need Real Name 2010-10-20 10:22:23 UTC

powertop's goal is presumbly to reduce energy usage by making suggestions which have a lasting effect.

When powertop first came out, the suggestions would always be accompanies by information on how to accomplish the same thing manually, so that a sysadmin could edit sysctl.conf or add the command to the startup scripts.

With many of the newer suggestions this information is missing, meaning powertop has to be run manually and the gui used every time the computer is started.

Maybe it would be nice to have the option to dump all enabled options to a file.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-11-18 14:42:20 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-12-13 13:00:36 UTC

Thanks for your report. It is interesting idea / feature request that should be addressed upstream. I am going to forward it there soon or you can do it yourself through http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power. After that this bug should be closed as CLOSED UPSTREAM.

Comment 3 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-12-15 11:22:33 UTC

In the current version of PowerTOP most of the suggestions (maybe all) includes command/action for manual reproducibility. Dump with suggestions can be created via powertop -d. But it is not directly usable in scripts thus I will forward the new option request.

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2010-12-15 12:35:59 UTC

Thanks.

Comment 5 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-12-15 13:19:54 UTC

Upstream request:
http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2010-December/002062.html

Thus closing UPSTREAM.