Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug? | Date | Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:27:24 -0500 (EST) |
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>> Agree that it is different. But it confuses people to have two >> idle-tasks. I suggest that we throw it one big pile, unless having a >> separate apm idle task has a purpose. > > You can't do that.
Sure you can, and it makes perfect sense.
> Doing it this way is _way_ better for system > stability, because kidle-apmd sometimes dies due to APM > bug. kidle-apmd dying is recoverable error; swapper dieing is as fatal > as it can be.
Good. Maybe the bugs will get fixed then. If the bugs are in the BIOS or motherboard hardware, we can have a blacklist.
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