[ltp] X60 - (bad) experience, others?

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:43:48 +0100


On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 19:41:48 +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:

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> Update:
> I basically found the guilty: uhci_hcd!
> The strange thing is that auto-suspend is enabled (and also on all
> devices) and that I did not have to remove it for getting 9.5W with
> 2.6.22. So something from 2.6.22 -> 2.6.24 changed in uhci_hcd and the
> change was not good, i.e. causing the CPU not entering C3 in 70-80%.
> Again, this was not necessary with 2.6.22...

IIRC auto-suspend for USB was disabled per default in 2.6.23 because it
broke too many devices.

Regards,
Tino