On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 02:43:03PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Greg: > > Here's a question for you. > > The current 2.6.17-rc driver handles FSBR rather poorly. For most > purposes it doesn't matter. But under certain kinds of load, like with a > Bluetooth adapter attached, it can increase power consumption noticeably > (on the order of 2 watts) compared to 2.6.16. This can be as much as 10% > of the total power usage of a laptop computer. > > I've got a patch for uhci-hcd which re-implements FSBR in a much better > way. It's a little long for -rc4 (15 KB), mostly because it was supposed > to come later in the pipeline. That is, I had intended to submit a couple > of other patches first, but the power consumption issue seemed more > important -- as a result, part of the work those other patches did had to > be folded in with the FSBR stuff, making it longer. > > What should I do? If I submit the standalone FSBR patch now, will it get > into 2.6.17-final? If not then I might as well go back to the original > patch sequence and get the whole schmeer into 2.6.18; people with > notebooks and USB Bluetooth will just have to suffer with the increased > power usage until then.
I say wait and do it correctly for 2.6.18, as it's too late for 2.6.17 like you say. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
