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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:55:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46927679.9020005@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468E83CE.8090800@redhat.com>

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/06/2007 12:35 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> Where is the ondemand-fix.patch? I can't find any link to it.
>> just click on it in the graph ;_
>>
>> it's also http://www.linuxpowertop.org/patches/ondemand-fix.patch (which
>> is submitted already to the maintainers)
>>
> 
> Ah, OK, that one just went into the latest Fedora 7 kernel.
> 
All this information makes it obvious that even though upgrades are 
painful (given slow laptop disks, *really* painful), it looks as if 
there are major benefits to be gained.

Thanks for sharing the information.

As improved as USB drivers are, I assume that unloading the drivers is 
still desirable if no USB hardware is in use.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-05 19:58 Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-06 16:34 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-06 16:35   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-06 17:02     ` Dave Jones
2007-07-09 21:42       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-09 21:46         ` Dave Jones
2007-07-06 18:02     ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-09 17:55       ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-07-10 18:59         ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-11 12:42 ` PCI devices power management, w/o sysfs? [Was: Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops ...] Richard Mittendorfer
2007-07-12  1:15   ` Arjan van de Ven

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