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From: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>
To: Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:44:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031207194404.GC13201@mail.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031130202521.A30370@mail.harddata.com>

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:25:21PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> This particular applet was written by some genius to read a state
> from ACPI _every second_.  To add insult to injury it rereads a
> constant information from ...battery/info on every round instead of
> storing it.  As you can guess it can sink a substantial amount of
> cycles and other resources especially that ACPI in BIOS is also
> often on a very heavy side.

But why it does not hurt with kernel 2.4.22? Moreover how ACPI BIOS influences
synaptics driver? I do not see any BIOS call there...

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-07 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-30 21:46 Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11 Lukas Hejtmanek
2003-11-30 22:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-11-30 22:39   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2003-11-30 23:26     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-11-30 23:40       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2003-12-01  3:25       ` Michal Jaegermann
2003-12-06 12:37         ` Kjartan Maraas
2003-12-07 19:44         ` Lukas Hejtmanek [this message]
2003-12-07 22:10           ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2003-12-08  0:54             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-12-08  9:54               ` Peter Berg Larsen
2003-12-08 18:16                 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-12-14 23:10                   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2003-12-08 11:22               ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
     [not found] ` <20031130230144.GA2124@rivenstone.net>
2003-11-30 23:11   ` Lukas Hejtmanek

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