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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree
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Mark Lord wrote:
>..
> And I just figured out the powertop:  it needed the kernel timers
> patch from the powertop site that was originally for 2.6.21..
> Any chance of somebody actually pushing that patch upstream some year ??
> Patch reproduced here for interest's sake only.
> Hey, look who's on the Signed-off list for it, *Arjan* !
...

Mmm.. hey, I was using this patch on 2.6.23 as well..

I wonder if perhaps this is the culprit for the mysterious 1-second delays
that sometimes slow down resume (from RAM) on my machine from 2 seconds
(normal) to 20 seconds (slow) ?