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SubjectRE: [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@ucw.cz]
>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:09 PM
>To: Pierre Ossman
>Cc: Pallipadi, Venkatesh; Adam Belay;
>linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org; LKML; Andi Kleen; Lee Revell
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors
>
>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 ;-).
>

I prefer leaving it off my default and enabling it on faulty hardware by
some blacklist.

Thanks,
Venki


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