Re: 2.6.19-rc4-mm1: noidlehz problems

[Pavel Machek]

On Wed 2006-11-01 14:02:57, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:23 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > First, it would be nice if we had someone listed as a maintainer of
> > noidlehz stuff...
> > 
> > Then... I'm getting strange messages from noidlehz each time I
> > unplug/replug AC power (perhaps due to interrupt latency?).
> 
> there probably is a different story going on.
> When you unplug/replug AC power, several bioses change the meaning of
> the software C-states in your system.
> (there is a mapping between software visible C states and the hardware
> C-states)

Yep, my notebook is one of such machines, so your theory looks very plausible.

									Pavel

-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/