From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992963AbXDRSdJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:33:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754213AbXDRSdJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:33:09 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:54950 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754211AbXDRSdI (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:33:08 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 64.172.16.225 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:31:33 -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: <46265F60.4040600@tmr.com> Message-ID: 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 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=-36.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -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 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 -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================