Re: [PATCH] Combined APM patch

[Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow _at_ mow.siemens.ru>]

On 靂 2002-01-07 at 07:52, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This is my version of the combined APM patches;
> 
> 	Change notification order so that user mode is notified
> 		before drivers of impending suspends.
> 	Move the idling back into the idle loop.
> 	A couple of small tidy ups.
> 
> See header comments for attributions.
> 
> This works for me (including as a module).
> 
> Please test and let me know - it seems to lower my power requirements
> by about 10% on my Thinkpad (over stock 2.4.17).
> 
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/2.4.17-APM.1.diff
> 

Sorry for delay.

The patch works just fine here. The only comment is not related to your
patch - before I did not use this interrupt counting and I have feeling
that CPU temp went down faster when system became idle. I still do not
understand what is achieved by it.

regards

-andrej
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