From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755942AbYCLXDB (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:03:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754539AbYCLXCr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:02:47 -0400 Received: from smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.200]:31774 "HELO smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754047AbYCLXCq (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:02:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=Oget9RHAL6MRudOmQLUWTU7Be+H00nug++O7ZXXi1+biP4RmJFXZ1t5LHQU9UtXGjrc79b2tw03uSS02R/FHRHn/Rh0ivEVulcQSoWQsjr0Ha7hvoESt58tduIxTQhwyen8Nj9zMN/waIfQDLKLcV9lcU/M2zcAJP61h1OuOJ8s= ; X-YMail-OSG: 7Us5xiAVM1lb4J9i4RjtuUmloZW_oU81tBw4BtW56cCQ53fumSKUn6BDnlGFmtTTyd8Kx8BuQA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.25-rc5] kerneldoc for Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:58:37 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: lkml , Russell King References: <200803101902.54407.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200803101902.54407.david-b@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803121558.37960.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Proof-reading doesn't always cut it ... an editor could help! Signed-off-by: David Brownell --- Just editorial fixes to the $SUBJECT patch. Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- g26.orig/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl 2008-03-12 00:43:43.000000000 -0700 +++ g26/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl 2008-03-12 15:41:48.000000000 -0700 @@ -671,16 +671,15 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c Power management is supported by explicit software clock gating: unused clocks are disabled, so the system doesn't waste power changing the state of transistors that aren't in active use. - On some systems this may be backed by hardware clock gating. - Circuits will still have leakage current to be managed, which - costs more with finer cicuit geometries, but for CMOS circuits - power is mostly spent by clocked state changes. + On some systems this may be backed by hardware clock gating, + where clocks are gated without being disabled in software. Sections of chips that are powered but not clocked may be able to retain their last state. This low power state is often called a retention - mode, in contrast to off where - power is cut and no state is retained but where leakage currents - may have a significant impact on battery life. + mode. + This mode still incurs leakage currents, especially with finer + circuit geometries, but for CMOS circuits power is mostly used + by clocked state changes.