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Message-ID: <20070418201036.GA2112@elf.ucw.cz> 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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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