Subject: RE: Advanced power management in atactl(8)
To: Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/18/2007 21:50:00
Haai,
Out of pure, unadulterated boredom, some pedantry concerning the manual:
On Sun, November 18, 2007 13:59, Marco Trillo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Controls the Advanced Power Management feature of the
> speci-
> fied device. Advanced Power Management is an optional
> feature
> used to specify a power management level to balance
> between
> device performance and power consumption.
>
> disable Disable the Advanced Power Management.
>
> set # Enable the Advanced Power Management
> feature
> and set its level to the value #, where #
> is
> an integer within the scale 0-253; being 0
> the
> mode with the lowest power consumption
> (and
> thus the worse performance)
s/and thus the worse performance/and thus providing the worst performance/
> and 253 the
> mode
> which provides the better performance at a
> cost of more power consumption.
s/provides the better performance/providest the best performance/
s/at a cost/at the cost/
>
> It should be noted that the effect of the
s/It should be noted/Note that/
> value need not be continous. For example,
s/continous/continuous/
> a
> device might provide only two modes: one
> from
> 0 to 126 and other from 127 to 253. Per
> the
> specification, values of 127 and higher do
> not
> permit the device to spin down to save
> power.
>
> [...]
>
> NetBSD 4.0_RC3 April 12, 2005 NetBSD
> 4.0_RC3
>
>[snip patch]
Baai,
De Zeurkous
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