Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2008 01:27:56 +1000 | | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] apm: make apm=power-off configurable like apm=realmode-power-off |
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:06:41 +0200 Niels de Vos <niels.devos@wincor-nixdorf.com> wrote: > > Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Hi Neils, > > > > On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:55:09 +0200 Niels de Vos <niels.devos@wincor-nixdorf.com> wrote: > >> On some systems (with broken BIOSes?) apm=power-off should be appended > >> as kernel parameter. apm=realmode-power-off is configurable during > >> compile-time. apm=power-off should be configurable likewise. > >> > >> On non-SMP systems apm=power-off is the default. For kernels with SMP > >> support it is not. > > > > We had a similar compile time option that we removed in 2.3.26pre1 in > > favour of the kernel parameter ... > > Okay, but why not have both options like apm=realmode-power-off?
It was a long time ago ... and APM must be almost dead my now, surely? :-)
Maybe I just never got around to removing the compile time config of real mode power off.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |