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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704172045100.18821@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:46:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > [appropriate CCs added]
> >
> > On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day 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.
> >
> > It's been like this for a long long time.  I think you're right that it can
> > be
> > dropped, but I don't know the details (eg. why it hasn't been dropped yet).
> >
> 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?

rday
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