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Re:Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings ... by baybal2 on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:38AM (#23271395)
I see this as a flaw of Linux development model, and how code from hardware vendors gets a free go.

When Linux was still small, each and every major hardware platform was worked on until mirror polish, and it worked "well."

Now, the only criteria, when Linux mainly relies on hardware maker programmers to do their job, is that the code compiles and works.

Without much pressure from users, there is nobody to push against "barely works" driver code.

Re:Deleting a Few LOC Can Yield “Significant” Power Savings ... by fred_is_fred on Friday May 22, 2020 @09:53AM (#23272065)
I don't think this is a specific PCI driver but core to how the PCI subsystem works.