Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:10 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff. |
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:33:16 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> 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. > > One thing that comes to mind is that you will need some way to make sure > that only one of ACPI and APM get initialized ...
i don't see how that has anything to do with removing legacy PM support. you can select both ACPI and APM *now*. if that's a bad thing, then fixing it is a completely independent issue.
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