Re: Liunx power consumption on laptops -- Enormous progress in the last few months

[Bill Davidsen]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/06/2007 12:35 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > Where is the ondemand-fix.patch? I can't find any link to it.
> > just click on it in the graph ;_
> >
> > it's also http://www.linuxpowertop.org/patches/ondemand-fix.patch (which
> > is submitted already to the maintainers)
>
> Ah, OK, that one just went into the latest Fedora 7 kernel.
All this information makes it obvious that even though upgrades are 
painful (given slow laptop disks, *really* painful), it looks as if 
there are major benefits to be gained.

Thanks for sharing the information.

As improved as USB drivers are, I assume that unloading the drivers is 
still desirable if no USB hardware is in use.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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