Re: [PATCH] Combined APM patch

From: Borsenkow Andrej (Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru)
Date: Sat Jan 12 2002 - 04:43:30 EST


On ðÎÄ, 2002-01-07 at 07:52, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is my version of the combined APM patches;
>
> Change notification order so that user mode is notified
> before drivers of impending suspends.
> Move the idling back into the idle loop.
> A couple of small tidy ups.
>
> See header comments for attributions.
>
> This works for me (including as a module).
>
> Please test and let me know - it seems to lower my power requirements
> by about 10% on my Thinkpad (over stock 2.4.17).
>
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/2.4.17-APM.1.diff
>

Sorry for delay.

The patch works just fine here. The only comment is not related to your
patch - before I did not use this interrupt counting and I have feeling
that CPU temp went down faster when system became idle. I still do not
understand what is achieved by it.

regards

-andrej
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