On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:10:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. 99+% of users don't have singing capacitors. (Or don't care enough to complain) For those that do can't figure out what to do from google, we have a documentation problem. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
