Runtime power management [LWN.net]

Runtime power management

Posted Aug 23, 2009 18:58 UTC (Sun) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: Runtime power management by johnflux
Parent article: Runtime power management

> At a saving of 0.2 Watts per machine

If the started power management work would stop at USB, it would be rather
pointless.

And for battery powered devices even that's a huge amount. If you want
the device to be able to idle for weeks, all this kind of extra power
usage needs to be fixed.

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