Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:12:54 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff. |
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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [appropriate CCs added] > > On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day 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. > > It's been like this for a long long time. I think you're right that it can be > dropped, but I don't know the details (eg. why it hasn't been dropped yet). > One reason was that there are (were?) a number of machines which only powered down properly using apm. It was discussed as part of shutting down after power failure when your UPS is running out of power.
I haven't checked on that in a while, I'm just supplying one reason since you wondered.
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