From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933431Ab1CXKVW (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:21:22 -0400 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:36143 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756762Ab1CXKVV (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:21:21 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: IbaJmYNSs84BPGAKa3SZzqmzIBGzMyeud9nY5FsMmymu 1300962079 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:21:16 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Len Brown Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Message-ID: <20110324102116.GA17446@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Len Brown wrote: > +What: CONFIG_APM > +When: 2.6.40 > +Why: Microsoft deleted APM from Windows as of Vista in in 2006. > + It now seems more than safe that the latest Linux Kernel be APM-free. > + The vintage laptops supporting APM are now difficult to find, > + making it problatic to maintain this code. > +Who: Len Brown People with a ThinkPad T23, T30 will really not appreciate this, and it should not be too difficult to recruit some as testers. Do you want me to try to recruit testers? These boxes should still work for about 5 more years, give or take. IBM *really* knew how to build stuff back then... If no testers show up, then the removal would be well justified. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh