Re: [bisected] sys_paccept: disable paccept() causes my macbook pro to have an annoying whining sound

["Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>]

On 01/07/10 12:37, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:45:12AM -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>> On 01/07/10 04:54, John W. Linville wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:16:27PM -0800, Justin Mattock wrote:
>>>> for a while I've been hearing this odd
>>>> annoying sound coming from my macbook pro
>>>> when the system is idle(no internet use tv/radio/web etc...)
>>>> as soon as I do anything(radio,web) the noise disappears.
>>>>
>>>> here is a  url where they are experiencing the same issue:
>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook1-1/Hardy
>>>> (down under whining noise);
>>>>
>>>> here is is the result of my bisect:
>>>>
>>>> 2d4c8266774188cda7f7e612e6dfb8ad12c579d5 is the first bad commit
>>>> commit 2d4c8266774188cda7f7e612e6dfb8ad12c579d5
>>>> Author: Michael Kerrisk<mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
>>>> Date:   Mon Sep 22 13:57:49 2008 -0700
>>>>
>>>>      sys_paccept: disable paccept() until API design is resolved
>>>
>>> Any particular reason you sent this to linux-wireless??
>>>
>>
>>
>> because the bisect had resulted in
>> something with wireless, so I figured
>> it was the next best thing todo.
>
> Well, if you say so. :-)  But, I'm not sure I see the connection
> between sys_paccept and wireless...?
>
> John


yeah.. my bad..
I got too CC happy with this one.

I think andi is right by saying this
is a power management issue.

Justin P. Mattock