Subject: FU: RE: Advanced power management in atactl(8)
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/18/2007 21:52:36
s/'s/provides the better performance/providest the best performance/'>
s/provides the better performance/provides the best performance/'/ :X

On Sun, November 18, 2007 21:50, De Zeurkous wrote:
> 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
> -----------
>
> Friggin' Machines!
>
> --
> % NetBSD, zsh, twm, nvi and roff junkie
> From the fool file:
> I don't see why the way people have historically partitioned disks should
> dictate which kernels we build and distribute by default in the future.
>         --Darren Reed (darrenr@NetBSD.org), NetBSD tech-kern
>
>


-- 
% NetBSD, zsh, twm, nvi and roff junkie
From the fool file:
I don't see why the way people have historically partitioned disks should
dictate which kernels we build and distribute by default in the future.
        --Darren Reed (darrenr@NetBSD.org), NetBSD tech-kern