From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753221AbXDRAq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753232AbXDRAq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:58 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:43532 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753221AbXDRAq5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:57 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 24.6.145.253 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Bill Davidsen cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , pm list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff. In-Reply-To: <46254666.2020308@tmr.com> Message-ID: References: <200704131022.45315.rjw@sisk.pl> <46254666.2020308@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.854, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 1.95, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > [appropriate CCs added] > > > > On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > just something i threw together, not in final form, but it represents > > > tossing the legacy PM stuff. at the moment, the menuconfig entry for > > > PM_LEGACY lists it as "DEPRECATED", while the help screen calls it > > > "obsolete." that's a good sign that it's getting close to the time > > > for it to go, and the removal is fairly straightforward, but there's > > > no mention of its removal in the feature removal schedule file. > > > > It's been like this for a long long time. I think you're right that it can > > be > > dropped, but I don't know the details (eg. why it hasn't been dropped yet). > > > 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? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================