Jeff, What do you see if you apply just the patch below? Also, in addition to "powertop -d" to show what the kernel requests, please run turbostat to show what the hardware actually did: http://userweb.kernel.org/~lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools-latest/turbostat/turbostat.c eg. # turbostat -d -v sleep 5 thanks, -Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center --- diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c index 7c0441f..f528625 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ static const struct file_operations acpi_processor_power_fops = { static int acpi_idle_bm_check(void) { u32 bm_status = 0; - +return bm_status; acpi_read_bit_register(ACPI_BITREG_BUS_MASTER_STATUS, &bm_status); if (bm_status) acpi_write_bit_register(ACPI_BITREG_BUS_MASTER_STATUS, 1); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
