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

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:30:54 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > One thing that comes to mind is that you will need some way to make sure
> > that only one of ACPI and APM get initialized ...
>
> i don't see how that has anything to do with removing legacy PM
> support.  you can select both ACPI and APM *now*.  if that's a bad
> thing, then fixing it is a completely independent issue.

Except your patch removes this hunk:

@@ -2264,14 +2248,6 @@ static int __init apm_init(void)
 		apm_info.disabled = 1;
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
-	if (PM_IS_ACTIVE()) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "apm: overridden by ACPI.\n");
-		apm_info.disabled = 1;
-		return -ENODEV;
-	}
-#ifdef CONFIG_PM_LEGACY
-	pm_active = 1;
-#endif

in apm.c and a similar piece of the ACPI initialisation that prevented
one initialising if the other had already initialised.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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