Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:05:35 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors |
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> But, with this patch: > - we are penalizing good hardware and making them less power efficient > to match the bad ones. > - There may also be server systems which first may not have these sort > of power fluctuations and even when buggy and have this noise, system > may be in some corner of some lab with fans making more noise than the > capacitors.
Can you make it configurable through sysfs? Default to disabled, but allow the user to turn it on if the machine makes too much noise.
Alan Stern
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