From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: "'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@suse.cz>,
Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:20:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604232003.Y4751@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C02AB7ED5@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:59:11PM -0700, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> This is a tough one because ACPI *is* power management but it is also
> configuration. It is equivalent to such things as MPS table parsing, $PIR
> parsing, PNPBIOS, as well as APM. The first two don't have CONFIG_ options
> at the moment but they should at some point.
> The only thing I can think of is a "Platform interface options" menu and
> just throw all of the above in that. Any other ideas?
You seem to be halfway down the road of splitting ACPI in two already,
with the introduction of CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY recently. Why not bundle
such options under a CONFIG_ACPI_INITIALISATION or the likes, and
put the rest under the power management menu as Brad suggested ?
Dave.
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| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-04 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-04 20:59 [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2] Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 21:20 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-05 1:34 ` Brad Hards
2002-06-05 10:29 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-05 23:11 ` Brad Hards
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-04 23:31 Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 23:09 Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 23:25 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-05 1:00 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-04 21:58 Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 22:09 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-04 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-07 5:38 ` fchabaud
2002-06-03 1:56 Linux 2.5.20 Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 3:18 ` [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2] Brad Hards
2002-06-03 22:42 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-04 14:09 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-04 22:05 ` Brad Hards
2002-06-02 5:16 ` Pavel Machek
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