From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Organization: Novell
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] sleepy linux
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:08:35 +0100
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Am Mittwoch, 26. Dezember 2007 19:56:59 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
> > 3) Network card that is either down
> > ? ?or can wake up system on any packet (and not loose too many packets)
> > 
> 
> This is the big crux I see. ?You're going to constantly wake up the 
> machine due to broadcast packets, and spend a lot of power just going in 
> and out of S3.

How many machines care a lot about saving power while they are connected
to an ethernet? Wlan might be more of a problem.

	Regards
		Oliver

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