From: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, khali@linux-fr.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc4] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:55:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46043EB7.7060608@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000703231332q1c4a2e0epcba5c8b6c18d41fa@mail.gmail.com>
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Yan,
>
> On 3/23/07, Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> +
>> +static unsigned int input_3d;
>> +module_param(input_3d, bool, S_IRUGO);
>> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(input_3d, "Operate as a 3D joystick instead of 2D");
>
> Why do you need that? Just have the driver always report all 3 events
> and have applications decide if they want to use ABS_Z events...
>
Getting the coordinates goes through ACPI, so it eats up CPU. I think I
remember seeing
up to 15-16% CPU usage with all 3 events.
That is why you probably want to disable it in most cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-23 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 14:51 [PATCH 2.6.21-rc4] hwmon: HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D ACPI driver Yan Burman
2007-03-23 20:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-23 20:55 ` Yan Burman [this message]
2007-03-23 21:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-24 9:03 ` Yan Burman
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