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

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:50:06 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Keng-Yü 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 Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 03:29:09PM +0800, Keng-Yü Lin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> About every 22 seconds.

Ok, this seems fair then.

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