Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
...
> > 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 boxes, it hasn't been updated since that time, so I
> can't say what later kernels will do.

perhaps i completely misunderstood what i was looking at but when i
submitted a patch to remove "legacy power management," i wasn't
referring to APM.  i was talking about the PM stuff even *older* than
that, that's listed as "Legacy Power Management API (DEPRECATED)"
under the PM config menu.

so, politics and scheduling aside, was that earlier patch a reasonable
and correct way to do *that*?

rday

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