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Message-ID: <20070710185907.GA7139@elf.ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:59:07 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months
On Mon 2007-07-09 13:55:05, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.
That should be no longer neccessary, IIRC.
Pavel
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