Re: So, what's the status on the recent patches here?

Pavel Machek
2006-08-25T19:58:18Z

Hi!

> > For notebooks, devices *are* islands. powerop tries to push
> > everything-depends-on-everything model that may be good for some SoC,
> > but sucks for notebooks. We need some middle ground.
>
> USB being enabled and causing your laptop battery to dry up is a case
> where laptop device dependency has been shown. There are likely many
> more cases. I would expect BIOS/chip set developers are all too aware
> of these in their sub-domains.

No, it is because USB enabled prevents cpu from sleeping; it is
actually well known.
Pavel
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