LXer: Talk Of A "Massive Power Regression" In Linux 3.5
 

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For at least some hardware, it looks like the Linux 3.5 kernel has regressed and is burning through noticeably more power than its predecessor. Over the weekend a new mailing list thread began that was entitled "Massive power regression going 3.4-[he]gt[/he]3.5" pertaining to a power problem in this most recent Linux kernel release. This just wasn't a random user complaining of a "massive power regression" but James Bottomley, a Linux kernel developer veteran.

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