From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755162Ab1C1SV0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:21:26 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:47606 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753016Ab1C1SVY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:21:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:21:23 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen , Jiri Kosina , Stephen Rothwell , Linus , Andrew Morton , LKML , x86@kernel.org, Len Brown , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Ondrej Zary Subject: Re: [PATCH] apm: orphan the driver Message-ID: <20110328182123.GX21838@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20110326172204.05e52c10.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110329004438.d9e755ef.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110328174542.GW21838@one.firstfloor.org> <4D90CC0B.8070105@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D90CC0B.8070105@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Or we phase out the APM effort by only supporting it for poweroff, for > example. Phasing out APM idle at least would be reasonable. resumably even if the old laptops still work they are likely on AC because their batteries have long died. So using a bit more power in idle shouldn't be a big issue. Not sure about suspend, screen saver etc. I suppose those could be kept as frozen legacy features. At least until someone else wants to redesign those parts too. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.