From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992499AbXDRULY (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:11:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992502AbXDRULY (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:11:24 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:54659 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992499AbXDRULX (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:11:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:10:36 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Bill Davidsen Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , pm list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff. Message-ID: <20070418201036.GA2112@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200704131022.45315.rjw@sisk.pl> <46254666.2020308@tmr.com> <46265F60.4040600@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46265F60.4040600@tmr.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >>One reason was that there are (were?) a number of machines which only > >>powered > >>down properly using apm. It was discussed as part of shutting down after > >>power > >>failure when your UPS is running out of power. > >> > > > >um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM? two different issues, > >no? > > > Since the patches are going into apm.c and apm was used for suspend and > poweroff before ACPI was a feature of the hardware, I assume there's a > relationship. As of 2.6.9 ACPI still couldn't power down one of my >old There is not. The patches should not affect you unless you use obscure 68000 driver. We are removing infrastructure that has no users. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html