The patch titled acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200-update has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200-update.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200-update From: Dag Bakke <dag@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c~acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200-update drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c~acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200-update +++ a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ static int set_max_cstate(const struct d } /* - * Some (Dell) machines have a too large C3 latency set, but it still works - * completely. Dell provides a driver for other operating systems to hack - * around this bug, so we know it's safe. + * Some (Dell) machines set the C3 latency to a value which effectively says: + * "Don't use C3." Still, C3 works if we force it. + * This enables C3 on Dell Inspiron 8200 machines. */ static int dmi_force_c3(const struct dmi_system_id *id) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dag@xxxxxxxxx are acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200.patch acpi-enable-c3-power-state-on-dell-inspiron-8200-update.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html