Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Corey Minyard <[email protected]> writes: > > >> Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >> >>> Just out of interest, how often does the driver wake up to check >>> the inteface? >>> >> When idle, the driver wakes up every 10ms to check for something on >> the driver. >> > > Wow, 100 times per second, that sure sounds gross for piping out SEL > entries! Though it certainly doesn't matter much for our servers, but > hasn't it got the potential to heavily tax laptop batteries? Or is > that why ipmi_si isn't loaded automatically by udev? > IPMI is used for a lot of things beyond just getting SEL entries. I some cases (probably most) it's excessive, in others it's not.
However, AFAIK IPMI hardware is only available in server systems. I don't think it's ever been used in a laptop. -corey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
