Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] cpuidle: avoid singing capacitors

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> 
> > But, with this patch:
> > - we are penalizing good hardware and making them less power efficient
> > to match the bad ones.
> > - There may also be server systems which first may not have these sort
> > of power fluctuations and even when buggy and have this noise, system
> > may be in some corner of some lab with fans making more noise than the
> > capacitors.
> 
> Can you make it configurable through sysfs?  

It already is, through a writable module_parm() 

> Default to disabled, but 
> allow the user to turn it on if the machine makes too much noise.

99+% of the users wouldn't be able to figure that out.

-Andi
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