linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad-laptop: Ignore an unused VPC notification

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Message-ID: <20110707151023.GA15366@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 Jul 2011 16:10:24 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Keng-Yu Lin <kengyu@...onical.com>
Cc:	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ike.pan@...onical.com, vanhoof@...onical.com,
	kent.lin@...onical.com, sylee@...onical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ideapad-laptop: Ignore an unused VPC notification

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 02:35:53PM +0100, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
> BIOS fires notifications in a constant period with VPC bit 1 set when the
> power cord is unplugged.

How frequently? That's going to do bad things to power management. It'd 
be nice to find a way to just make it stop doing that.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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