[PATCH 2/2] n2100: reduce power button timer to 1 Hz

Mikael Pettersson mikpe at it.uu.se
Mon Sep 28 06:30:30 EDT 2009


Aaro Koskinen writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > 10 Hz seems excessive, so this patch adds a compile-time option
 > > to reduce the polling frequency to 1 Hz.
 > > 
 > > (This change could possibly be handled via a kernel boot option,
 > > or even be made unconditional, but I opted for a compile-time
 > > option for now.)
 > 
 > I don't think there is need to have an option for this. With HZ also
 > round_jiffies() could be used, it doesn't need to be exact.

I don't quite follow you here. Can you elaborate?



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