https://www.01.org/powertop doesn't go anywhere useful any more about powertop HOT 6 OPEN

even searching "powertop documentation" doesn't yield any results that look official. Are there official docs? Even man powertop has this line at the bottom:

The program is more fully described at ⟨https://01.org/powertop⟩

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IMHO this is the compelling reason why documentation belongs in the git repo along with its build and deploy scripts.

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It is ;)
https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/blob/master/doc/powertop.8

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@jubalh https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop/blob/master/doc/powertop.8#L92-L93 disagrees with you.

If the complete documentation were 103 LOC, that would be some seriously weak sauce.

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If I remember correctly there was never any useful information at that adress.

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That site used to link to this long PDF which does not appear in any GH searches, though I suppose it could be in a non-default branch like gh-pages or something. https://web.archive.org/web/20191019015936/https://01.org/sites/default/files/page/powertop_users_guide_201412.pdf

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