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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] powerdevil-remove-cpuhotplug.patch
From:       Sebastian =?utf-8?q?K=C3=BCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-03-08 12:34:17
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.
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sebas

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