Recently I've been referencing Linux 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 kernel power drain regression in many of my articles. Fortunately Phoronix has found the root cause of this issue and has suggested a workaround for the affected systems. Also because of the Linux kernel 3.0 merge window closed this power regression will not be properly fixed until Linux kernel 3.1 release. In this article I'm bringing you two ways to work around this problem on your laptop or desktop system running Linux kernel 2.6.38 or newer.