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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704130416250.15118@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
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, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> 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 ...

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.

rday
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