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

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Message-Id: <20070413180942.b7cf0665.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:09:42 +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 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:33:16 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:
>
> just something i threw together, not in final form, but it represents
> tossing the legacy PM stuff.  at the moment, the menuconfig entry for
> PM_LEGACY lists it as "DEPRECATED", while the help screen calls it
> "obsolete."  that's a good sign that it's getting close to the time
> for it to go, and the removal is fairly straightforward, but there's
> no mention of its removal in the feature removal schedule file.

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 ...

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

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