[ltp] [PATCH 0/2] Thinkpad Suspend Powersave: Patches to improve suspend-to-ram power consumption on Thinkpads

[James McKenzie]

Theodore Y.Ts'o wrote:

>The following patches have been floating around on the linux-thinkpad
>lists in various forms since 2.6.9 or so, but were never in a state
>were they could be merged into mainline.  What I have attempted to do
>is to get them in a state where they could be start being vetted for
>inclusion into the -mm tree, and from there hopefully into Linus's
>tree. 
>
>A fairly large number of users have reported success with these
>patches, and have been able to reduce their power utilization from
>some 3600 mW/hour consumption during sleep down to approximately 600
>mW/hour.  So, I believe we are ready for the next stage of getting
>more testing --- namely, to add this to kernels as a
>CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL option and allow more users to try it out.
>
>The patches are versus 2.6.11; please comment.
>
>						- Ted
>  
>
Ted:

One question, are these limited to a specific series of Thinkpads, or 
should they be used with any Thinkpad?

James McKenzie
Owner of two Thinkpads, a 600E and A22p