linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/2] PM: Remove legacy PM

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:59:08 -0800
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/2] PM: Remove legacy PM

On Thursday 13 March 2008, David Newall wrote:
> > The first of the following two patches removes the legacy PM infrastructure
> > and the second one removes some of its remnants from the MIPS tree.
> 
> What does "legacy PM" mean?

It's stuff that's so ancient nobody uses it any more... it's been
deprecated over a year (f89bce3d9afc6b1fb898ae176df4962c1303ee86),
and at that time only one ancient (Amiga?) driver even tried to
use the notification scheme it provided.

Glad to see this finally go away!

- Dave
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