linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40

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Message-Id: <201103241315.34722.linux@rainbow-software.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:15:34 +0100
From:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40

On Thursday 24 March 2011, Len Brown wrote:
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b3f35e5..2a03c46 100644
> --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> @@ -619,3 +619,11 @@ Why:	The original implementation of memsw feature
> enabled by Who:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
>
>  ----------------------------
> +
> +What:	CONFIG_APM
> +When:	2.6.40
> +Why:	Microsoft deleted APM from Windows as of Vista in in 2006.
> +	It now seems more than safe that the latest Linux Kernel be APM-free.
> +	The vintage laptops supporting APM are now difficult to find,
> +	making it problatic to maintain this code.
> +Who:	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>

Please don't turn Linux into second Windows. If you don't want APM in the 
kernel, just don't compile it. There are many people using older systems with 
APM - and most of them wouldn't oppose to this removal as they don't even 
know about it.

-- 
Ondrej Zary
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