Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: add clock gating feature

From: Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:48:14 +0200

Hi,

Le Monday 27 April 2009 21:24:47 Andrew Morton, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:31:35 -0400
>
> Ayaz Abdulla <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > This patch adds support for clock gating the tx/rx engines which is
> > available on certain chipsets.
>
> What are the effects of this patch?  Improved power management?  Fixes
> a user-visible bug?  Something else?

Clock gating is a design technique which improves power consumption by only 
clocking the necessary parts of the chip.

Ayaz do you have any figures on how this patch reduces consumption ?
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Best regards, Florian Fainelli
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