From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:48:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20110207124846.GA10442@elte.hu> References: <1297081335-13631-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1297081335-13631-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Brown Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown , Alan Stern , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org * Mark Brown 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. > Since having the configuration option requires non-zero effort to > maintain, with ifdefery in most drivers, but it is used with vanishing > rarity it is simpler to just remove the option. Well, either make it dependent on CONFIG_EXPERT or remove the option altogether. Thanks, Ingo