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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:09:51 +0000
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:48:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> > 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.

The goal is the latter but when I saw the IA64 emulator there I didn't
want to make it instabuggy.  The current patch means we get the UI
effect of the change (especially in terms of avoiding it turning up in
randconfigs or whatever).