From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blink driver power saving
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 11:07:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707011106030.1172@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070701125035.3f54d8b0@oldman>
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> The blink driver wakes up every jiffies which wastes power unnecessarily.
> Using a notifier gives same effect. Also add ability to unload module.
I really get the feeling this thing should be removed entirely. Wasting
power is the _least_ of its problems.
I'll apply the patch, but I wonder if I should also just mark it BROKEN in
the config file to make sure nobody enables it without realizing how bad
it is to do so.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-01 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 16:50 Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-01 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-07-01 21:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-01 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-01 23:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-02 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-02 17:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-02 19:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 23:18 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-01 21:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 11:43 Indan Zupancic
2007-07-02 11:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 12:29 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-07-02 12:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 12:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 12:56 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-02 13:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 13:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 20:19 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-04 21:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-05 5:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 23:08 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-03 5:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-04 21:40 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-04 21:57 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-04 22:11 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-05 5:38 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-12 9:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-13 0:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-04 22:32 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-04 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-04 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707041610530.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-04 23:20 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-03 7:12 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-04 19:37 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-05 20:30 ` Bill Davidsen
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[not found] ` <8Cfjl-PJ-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8CfW1-1TX-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8ChEo-4yy-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-07-02 13:11 ` Bodo Eggert
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