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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:10:53 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [APM] Share APM emulator between architectures.
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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:18:40 +0100
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:

> Currently ARM and MIPS both have a copy of the APM emulation code.  Move
> that code to drivers/char and make it selectable through
> SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION.  To make this work, fix MIPS Kconfig to use
> kernel/power/Kconfig.

It would have been better to create the new driver as a standalone
patch, then let arm and mips independently migrate over to it later on.

But if Russell's OK with this patch we can run with it.