Re: Battery life difference

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jul 05 2008 - 15:34:50 EST


On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 20:41:07 +0300
"Felipe Balbi" <felipebalbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Cool, now I'm using current linux 2.6.26-rc8 from git
> b8a0b6ccf2ba2519ace65d782b41ee91bf3c3778
>
> Now I'm reaching 9.8w consumption :-)
>
> Really good improvements.

cool

>
> btw, any plans to move some of the powertop features to acpid ?
> I mean, the wireless pm for iwl4965 could be there, couldn't it ?

actually.. it needs to/is moving into the driver. This sort of decision
needs to just happen locally in the driver; the idea that you can make
power decisions (rather than policy decisions) on a global level is
just no longer true (if it ever was).

Actually I thought this was already in the 2.6.26-rc kernel series
driver...


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