Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and > > well people can select the one they want, right? > > Then why not leave the default at 1000? Because some machines exhibit appreciable latency in entering low power state via ACPI, and 1000Hz reduces their battery life. By about half, iirc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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