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

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Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:10:36 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

Hi!

> >>One reason was that there are (were?) a number of machines which only 
> >>powered
> >>down properly using apm. It was discussed as part of shutting down after 
> >>power
> >>failure when your UPS is running out of power.
> >>    
> >
> >um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM?  two different issues,
> >no?
> >  
> Since the patches are going into apm.c and apm was used for suspend and 
> poweroff before ACPI was a feature of the hardware, I assume there's a 
> relationship. As of 2.6.9 ACPI still couldn't power down one of my
>old

There is not. The patches should not affect you unless you use obscure
68000 driver.

We are removing infrastructure that has no users.
									Pavel
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