linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors

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Message-ID: <20080304040048.GA31562@codemonkey.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:00:48 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adam Belay <abelay@...ell.com>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
 > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
 > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
 > > 
 > > > But, with this patch:
 > > > - we are penalizing good hardware and making them less power efficient
 > > > to match the bad ones.
 > > > - There may also be server systems which first may not have these sort
 > > > of power fluctuations and even when buggy and have this noise, system
 > > > may be in some corner of some lab with fans making more noise than the
 > > > capacitors.
 > > 
 > > Can you make it configurable through sysfs?  
 > 
 > It already is, through a writable module_parm() 
 > 
 > > Default to disabled, but 
 > > allow the user to turn it on if the machine makes too much noise.
 > 
 > 99+% of the users wouldn't be able to figure that out.

99+% of users don't have singing capacitors. (Or don't care enough to complain)
For those that do can't figure out what to do from google,
we have a documentation problem.

	Dave 

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