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From: Igmar Palsenberg <maillist@chello.nl>
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Subject: Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?
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> > Doing it this way is _way_ better for system
> > stability, because kidle-apmd sometimes dies due to APM
> > bug. kidle-apmd dying is recoverable error; swapper dieing is as fatal
> > as it can be.
> 
> Good. Maybe the bugs will get fixed then. If the bugs are in
> the BIOS or motherboard hardware, we can have a blacklist.

If the're a lot of buggy APM BIOS'es out there it may indeed not be a wise
idea to throw everything on one pile.


	Igmar

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