Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: >On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Michael Biebl wrote: >> > powertop encourages to disable polling, so it is a big point. >> >> I agree with you in general, but I doubt polling every 2 or 16 seconds will >> make >> any significant difference power consumption wise. > >It does. It won't be much, but still... in any proper new laptop, that >drive will have a non-broken firmware that does SATA power-saving and AN, >and you are waking it up.
Hal checks the drive capabilities and shouldn't be polling drives that support async notifications. Is that code not working for you? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.de...@srcf.ucam.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
