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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:33:30 MST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:17:41 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Power-drain during suspend? 
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> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:33:30 -0700 (MST)
> From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
> 
> In message: <20060209204708.B04AD45041@ptavv.es.net>
>             "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes:
> : > > hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=[1|2|3]
> : > 
> : > This goes in sysctl.conf?
> : 
> : Yes. It's dynamic, so you can change it at any time (unless it hangs
> : your system).
> 
> But this only affects power managent for those devices that do no have
> a driver attached to them.  I don't believe that it affects
> suspend/resume at all.

So, I guess that you should put it in /boot/loader.conf to get any true
benefit of it.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634