Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11

From: Lukas Hejtmanek
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 14:44:58 EST


On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:25:21PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> This particular applet was written by some genius to read a state
> from ACPI _every second_. To add insult to injury it rereads a
> constant information from ...battery/info on every round instead of
> storing it. As you can guess it can sink a substantial amount of
> cycles and other resources especially that ACPI in BIOS is also
> often on a very heavy side.

But why it does not hurt with kernel 2.4.22? Moreover how ACPI BIOS influences
synaptics driver? I do not see any BIOS call there...

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Lukáš Hejtmánek
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