On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:58:35PM +0100, Francesco Allertsen wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:07:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > It's a fix to decrease power consumption on a wide range of different > > machines. I wanted to make this a separate release to make it easier > > for people to test it out in a simple way. This patch has been shipping > > in the Fedora kernels for a while now, so I'm pretty confident about it, > > but I'm doing it this way just to be sure. > > > > Please let me know if anyone has any problems with it as soon as > > possible. > > I have tested the patch and does not break anything, but I don't get any > decreasing in power consumption (it is always around 10W with and > without the patch) on my Lenovo Thinkpad X201s.
Well, it doesn't decrease stuff for everyone, just for people who had broken BIOSes (well odd bioses) that caused too much power to be used before. 10W is nice. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
