Hi! > > > As far as I know the patch has gone nowhere. I believe that > > > Jeff wanted something more flexible than the module parameter that > > > I provided to override the BIOS options. I am not working on this, > > > I figured he had a pretty firm idea what he wanted so he was better > > > equipped to write the patch. > > > > Thanks Kristen, > > > > Can you say which laptops you had tested this on where it saved power? > > (Did you test any Thinkpads, in particular?) I'm wondering if it's > > worth trying to forward port your patch as a private mod to my kernel; > > 30 to 40 minutes of extra battery life is nothing to sneeze at! > > > > - Ted > > > > I tested this on an Intel mobile software development platform > with a newer mobile ICH - the power savings were measured at the actual > component (via probes on the ICH), so I did not measure the power > savings at the wall socket, although I would expect the power savings > to be even greater on the other side of the power supply. So in short, > yes, I think it's worth it to give it a try - the patch is pretty > unintrusive, so it should be that difficult a port to do. Can you repost the patch? I believe we should push it and only add complex enable/disable functionality if someone needs it... -- (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-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
