On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, April 26, 2014 12:55:37 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:18:58AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > And why do we have to do things that we hate it when they are done by > > > others? > > > > Well, I'm assuming that these things that I dislike are actually useful > > and liked by the majority (me not fitting that is nothing new). If > > everybody hates these things, WTF are they still the default on pretty > > much every OS out there, Windows and Mac OS do the same screen dimming > > things when they loose AC last time I touched one of them. > > Well, vendors have certain battery life targets for their products (you > know, something for the marketing people to brag about) and tend to be > quite aggressive about doing whatever they can to reach them.
Well, I was just hoping the industry wasn't _that_ rotten and there was actual a majority of people liking this. > We don't have such targets for the mainline kernel, though, do we? ;-) No, for sure :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
