From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] acpi: enable C3 Power State on Dell Inspiron 8200 Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:43:32 +0200 Message-ID: <48711254.4080503@firstfloor.org> References: <200807040705.m6475R65018507@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:38406 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751410AbYGFSnf (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jul 2008 14:43:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200807040705.m6475R65018507@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, dag@bakke.com, arjan@infradead.org, lenb@kernel.org akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: > From: Dag Bakke > > Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8703 NAK. Len's latest reply in bugzilla was >>> Dell replied off-line that they disabled C3 on this system on purpose because of its chipset. If you are able to measure a power savings by 2nd guessing Dell, without any stability problems, then please document that here and re-open this sighting. <<< I agree with him. The BIOS likely knows better on this Andrew, please drop the patch. -Andi