Re: [PATCH] ACPI: create "processor.bm_check_disable" boot param

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Jul 26 2010 - 03:24:16 EST


Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Note also that an alternative for newer systems
> is to use the intel_idle driver, which always
> ignores BM_STS, relying Linux device drivers
> to register constraints explicitly via PM_QOS.
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15886

Thanks. I don't fully understand why the check for this option
is in a different place than the register check in the earlier patch?

This needs to be also documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Other than that it looks good.

-Andi
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