On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> The blink driver wakes up every jiffies which wastes power unnecessarily.
> Using a notifier gives same effect. Also add ability to unload module.
I really get the feeling this thing should be removed entirely. Wasting
power is the _least_ of its problems.
I'll apply the patch, but I wonder if I should also just mark it BROKEN in
the config file to make sure nobody enables it without realizing how bad
it is to do so.
Linus
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