From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758488AbXGIRvS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:51:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753972AbXGIRvL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:51:11 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:34945 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753625AbXGIRvK (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 13:51:10 -0400 Message-ID: <46927679.9020005@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:55:05 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Ebbert CC: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months References: <468D4D82.8030009@linux.intel.com> <468E6F0C.1090601@redhat.com> <468E6F4C.8000601@linux.intel.com> <468E83CE.8090800@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <468E83CE.8090800@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot