linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:

>>> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP.  Not trivial for a user to select it
>>> when it doesn't even appear on the menu.  It doesn't appear
>>> because CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP isn't enabled, but that doesn't
>>> appear either -- because CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU isn't selected.
>>
>> so have something like
>>
>> config ACPI_SLEEP
>>          select HOTPLUG_CPU if X86 && SMP
>>          select SUSPEND_SMP if X86 && SMP
>>
>> instead of makeing it dependant on ACPI.
>
> If more config options where better, then this
> would indeed be an improvement over 2.6.22.
> But more config options isn't better -- except for "some people":-)

coupling unrelated fetures togeather isn't better either.

David Lang
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