Power consumption with Fedora

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 2 December 2014 at 13:05, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 1) A problem is identified.
> > 2) Profile the problem and show where it might be happening.
> > 3) Some amount on fixing the problem is done.
> > 4) Find that the problem isn't there and there is no quick fix.
> > 5) Throw away that solution and implement another one.
> > 6) Deal with flame wars about any and all changes during this from people
> > the problem doesn't occur to.
> >
> > Projects which use words like "we" before 3 or 4 usually never get to 3
> or 4
> > due to the amount of "why is your problem now my work?" response from
> > everyone from developers to random people on the lists.
> >
> > Currently you are at 1, and you have tried to jump to 3 with the Arch
> > solution. You need to profile the Arch solution to see if it really
> works or
> > if it only works if you run an X11/twm and nothing fancier than Mosaic
> from
> > 1997. [Or without X11 at all.. that is the usual way to get a large power
> > improvement on a laptop.]
>
> Question: Shouldn't the evaluation and fix be targeted at Rawhide
> first, and then see about "backporting" demonstrated fixes to Fedora
>

It should always be in rawhide. I doubt that it would be ready anytime near
Fedora 22 or 23.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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