Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:40:28 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 13:22, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote: > It is very rare to find a current system which is both sufficiently > resource constrained to want to compile out power management support > and sufficiently power insensitive to be able to tolerate doing so.
Hmmm...
> --- a/kernel/power/Kconfig > +++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig > @@ -1,23 +1,6 @@ > config PM > - bool "Power Management support" > - depends on !IA64_HP_SIM > - ---help--- > - "Power Management" means that parts of your computer are shut > - off or put into a power conserving "sleep" mode if they are not > - being used. There are two competing standards for doing this: APM > - and ACPI. If you want to use either one, say Y here and then also > - to the requisite support below.
Good to see the PC-centric comments are going away :-)
> - > - Power Management is most important for battery powered laptop > - computers; if you have a laptop, check out the Linux Laptop home > - page on the WWW at <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> or > - Tuxmobil - Linux on Mobile Computers at <http://www.tuxmobil.org/> > - and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from > - <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. > - > - Note that, even if you say N here, Linux on the x86 architecture > - will issue the hlt instruction if nothing is to be done, thereby > - sending the processor to sleep and saving power. > + bool > + default y if !IA64_HP_SIM
The following architectures do not source "kernel/power/Kconfig":
alpha cris h8300 Kconfig m32r m68k m68knommu microblaze parisc score sparc tile um xtensa
Which means that (for now) I don't have to care that CONFIG_PM becomes unclearable. Other people may care, though...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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