linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Read TSC upon resume

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Message-ID: <20101007174626.GA31541@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:46:26 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>
Cc:	lenb@...nel.org, stefan.bader@...onical.com,
	brad.figg@...onical.com, apw@...onical.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Read TSC upon resume

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:43:34AM -0700, Sameer Nanda wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> > And are you always going to be printing this out?  Why do we want to
> > know this every time?
> >
> 
> Yes, every time.  This helps track variance in BIOS resume times within a
> single boot.

Is that really something that users can do something about?  I can
understand when you are trying to work with a BIOS company, but
otherwise, this seems quite pointless.

thanks,

greg k-h
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