[Angstrom-devel] [PATCH, CRITICAL] ipaq-sleep fix

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

      Please approve this critical fix. And I would like to RFC
coreteam members to be able to commit without pre-review for critical
bug and security fixes.


> Hello angstrom-distro-devel,

>       This is critical bugfix. Impact includes perceptible system
> slowdown and reduced battery life. Please approve.


> o   -----------------------------------------------------------------
> |   Revision: b1eb3466dafc9eb0908b3c6a5749e44c83d43bb7
> |   Ancestor: fac66456828796a81d9330011852754e1e4c364f
> |   Author: pfalcon at openembedded.org
> |   Date: 2007-12-31T16:03:00
> |   Branch: org.openembedded.dev
> |   
> |   Modified files:
> |           packages/ipaq-sleep/files/unbreak.patch
> |           packages/ipaq-sleep/ipaq-sleep_0.9.bb
> |   
> |   ChangeLog: 
> |   
> |   ipaq-sleep 0.9: Remove supposed fixes for all bugs except the most prominent one.
> |   * Apparently, it was big, big mistake to touch this code. Code Police, thy curse
> |   can't be lifted, let Perl be my witness!
> |   * Leave only obvious fix (off-by one error) for #3540.
> |   * Fixes #3586. (Well, it should. Noone really have reported that ipaq-sleep
> |   does *not* use 100% of CPU time during its normal course of action.)
> |   * This puts average latency of backlight coming back up after it was power-saved
> |   and touch/keypress happens to 1 second (which was the matter of other fixes,
> |   which reduced latency to ~0.2s).





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 Paul                            mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com