[ltp] X61 power consumption

[Theodore Tso]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:51:39AM +0100, Michael Karcher wrote:
> You are now the second person to report that it doesn't help. So maybe I
> did something wrong when I tested on my laptop or my ACPI is very
> inaccurate on reporting power consumption. Currently, I don't find the
> time to repeat the test, but discovered that on my hardware, I get 200
> "extra timer interrupts" per second, even if booted with -b. Maybe that
> the punishment for running a 2.6.28-rc2+git kernel. If I the problem
> persists with current git, I think I have to report a bug.

Yes, that problem showed up in 2.6.28-rc1 and was fixed in 2.6.28-rc4
or thereabouts (possibly -rc3).  It should go away if you recompile
and go to 2.6.28-rc6.

	    	      	      	  	    - Ted