From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264499AbTLGToP (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:44:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264500AbTLGToP (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:44:15 -0500 Received: from hell.sks3.muni.cz ([147.251.210.31]:60086 "EHLO hell.sks3.muni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264499AbTLGToO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:44:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:44:04 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Michal Jaegermann Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Synaptics PS/2 driver and 2.6.0-test11 Message-ID: <20031207194404.GC13201@mail.muni.cz> References: <20031130214612.GP2935@mail.muni.cz> <200311301728.10563.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20031130223953.GR2935@mail.muni.cz> <200311301826.52978.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20031130202521.A30370@mail.harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20031130202521.A30370@mail.harddata.com> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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