From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754819Ab1DDQpl (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:45:41 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:42990 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754696Ab1DDQpj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:45:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 18:44:56 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Len Brown , Stephen Rothwell , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Message-ID: <20110404164456.GA13215@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110324102116.GA17446@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20110325010705.GB4535@khazad-dum.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110325010705.GB4535@khazad-dum.debian.net> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > People with a ThinkPad T23, T30 will really not appreciate this, and it > > > should not be too difficult to recruit some as testers. > > > > I have both, and they both support ACPI. > > I wonder why I had some users of those two boxes advocating APM, maybe > it used to work better or something. Or I got the T21 and A30 confused > with the T23. > > Well, I don't think we need to support the thre-digit series ThinkPads, > the number of those still working is probably on the four digits > world-wide. And I haven't heard from anyone with a T21 or A31 in a > while, so they might be down to five digits already. I still have working thinkpad 560X, my brother occassionaly uses it... I do not think we should remove APM support like this. It does not seem to be huge maintainance burden... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html