From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261544AbVHBOMJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:12:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261539AbVHBOJh (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:09:37 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:48617 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261544AbVHBOI3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:08:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers From: Lee Revell To: Pavel Machek Cc: James Bruce , David Weinehall , Marc Ballarin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050802112304.GA1308@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050730195116.GB9188@elf.ucw.cz> <1122753864.14769.18.camel@mindpipe> <20050730201049.GE2093@elf.ucw.cz> <42ED32D3.9070208@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050731211020.GB27433@elf.ucw.cz> <42ED4CCF.6020803@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050731224752.GC27580@elf.ucw.cz> <1122852234.13000.27.camel@mindpipe> <20050801074447.GJ9841@khan.acc.umu.se> <42EE4B4A.80602@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050802112304.GA1308@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:08:27 -0400 Message-Id: <1122991707.5490.32.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:23 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > As I said, I do not care about default value. And you should not care, > too, since distros are likely to pick their own defaults. If the default value does not matter then the default should remain at 1000 so as to not violate the principle of least surprise for people who run "make oldconfig". Why is this so hard for people to understand? Lee