Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE description improvement

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At Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:54:21 +0000,
Michael Witten wrote:
> 
> The description has been expanded to explain the time-out
> value provided by the power_save module parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied now to sound git tree.


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/drivers/Kconfig |   24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/drivers/Kconfig b/sound/drivers/Kconfig
> index 84714a6..3264600 100644
> --- a/sound/drivers/Kconfig
> +++ b/sound/drivers/Kconfig
> @@ -170,9 +170,25 @@ config SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE
>  	  AC97 codecs.  In this mode, the power-mode is dynamically
>  	  controlled at each open/close.
>  
> -	  The mode is activated by passing power_save=1 option to
> -	  snd-ac97-codec driver.  You can toggle it dynamically over
> -	  sysfs, too.
> +	  The mode is activated by passing 'power_save=X' to the
> +	  snd-ac97-codec driver module, where 'X' is the time-out
> +	  value, a nonnegative integer that specifies how many
> +	  seconds of idle time the driver must count before it may
> +	  put the AC97 into power-save mode;  a value of 0 (zero)
> +	  disables the use of this power-save mode.
> +
> +	  After the snd-ac97-codec driver module has been loaded,
> +	  the 'power_save' parameter can be set via sysfs as follows:
> +
> +	    echo 10 > /sys/module/snd_ac97_codec/parameters/power_save
> +
> +	  In this case, the time-out is set to 10 seconds; setting
> +	  the time-out to 1 second (the minimum activation value)
> +	  isn't recommended because many applications try to reopen
> +	  the device frequently.  A value of 10 seconds would be a
> +	  good choice for normal operations.
> +
> +	  See Documentation/sound/alsa/powersave.txt for more details.
>  
>  config SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT
>  	int "Default time-out for AC97 power-save mode"
> @@ -182,4 +198,6 @@ config SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT
>  	  The default time-out value in seconds for AC97 automatic
>  	  power-save mode.  0 means to disable the power-save mode.
>  
> +	  See SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE for more details.
> +
>  endif	# SND_DRIVERS
> -- 
> 1.7.2.rc1.9.g5b527
> 
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