Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My ThinkPad T60 runs Kubuntu 7.10 with 2.6.24-rc5+git.
> 
> When I switch from mains powered to battery, the wakeups from idle
> increase from around 37 to 45. The hald-addon-cpufreq kicks in at
> cpufreq_governor_dbs (delayed_work_timer_fn).

this sounds like a distribution bug; the ondemand dbs should always be running, 
not just on battery.
(this is a very bad bug indeed)

I assume you're using at least PowerTOP 1.8 if not 1.9? Since cpufreq now uses 
deferred timers (which don't actually cause wakeups),
only later versions of PowerTOP are aware of this in their accounting...
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