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SubjectRe: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors
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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