From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:18:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1104041615040.5324@x980> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110404164456.GA13215@elf.ucw.cz>
> I still have working thinkpad 560X, my brother occassionaly uses it...
There is no doubt that there are still people running Linux
on old APM laptops.
The question, however, is if they're running (or will run)
the latest upstream kernel. Further, are they available
to test APM patches to the latest upstream kernel.
> I do not think we should remove APM support like this. It does not
> seem to be huge maintainance burden...
Last week we decided not to delete APM yet.
The jury is still out on APM's idle hooks.
cheers,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103232321070.3848@x980>
[not found] ` <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-03-24 7:39 ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 8:16 ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Len Brown
2011-03-24 8:31 ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support (v2) Len Brown
2011-03-24 16:01 ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-24 8:39 ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 23:49 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 22:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-26 4:35 ` Len Brown
2011-04-08 6:25 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-08 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-11 13:05 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-11 18:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 13:30 ` Pavel Machek
2011-03-26 5:01 ` Len Brown
2011-03-26 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-27 21:40 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-28 4:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-28 5:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28 12:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28 5:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 15:41 ` Calvin Walton
2011-03-24 8:18 ` [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-24 8:38 ` Alexander Stein
2011-03-24 10:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-24 23:05 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 1:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-25 1:34 ` Len Brown
2011-04-04 16:44 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-04 20:18 ` Len Brown [this message]
2011-03-24 12:15 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-24 23:29 ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 8:07 ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-26 5:09 ` Len Brown
2011-04-02 21:40 ` Yuhong Bao
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