From kde-devel  Mon Mar 08 12:34:17 2010
From: Sebastian =?utf-8?q?K=C3=BCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:34:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerdevil-remove-cpuhotplug.patch
Message-Id: <201003081334.18242.sebas () kde ! org>
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On Sunday 07 March 2010 23:57:44 Holger Macht wrote:
> Remove all CPU hotplug related code from powerdevil and the kcm
> module. The way the current Linux implementation and processors work
> results in giving you no power savings at all. This options might lead
> to a false impression/correlation between active CPUs and the actual
> power consumption.

+1, it's way too low level to make sense in powerdevil. One has to actually know a 
lot about how current CPUs save power to make this effective.
-- 
sebas

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