Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:08:39 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors |
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On Mon 2008-03-03 22:03:10, Pierre Ossman wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:46:03 +0100 > Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > > > > > > +static unsigned int min_deep_sleep = 2000; > > > + > > > > Well, why not, but I believe we should default to old behaviour... not > > all machines are cheaply-build. > > One would hope. ;) > > But the problem is that most people will not be able to find this > option (or even know such an option exists). I'd guess the distros will > just end up having this on by default anyway. And since I could not > measure any extra power drain, I believe it's hard to justify having it > off by default (more than by pure principle).
So just leave it off by default, and let distros break their own kernels ;-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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