[Buildroot] [PATCH] acpid: drop x86 architecture dependency

[Buildroot] [PATCH] acpid: drop x86 architecture dependency

[Peter Korsgaard]

Closes #11241

While ACPI is historically exclusively a x86 feature, ia64 and (some) arm64
server platforms also use it.  Furthermore, even if the firmware does not
provide an ACPI interface and/or the kernel is not built with ACPI support,
acpid can still be used to command an orderly shutdown of the system as it
also listens for KEY_POWER / KEY_SUSPEND events from the input subsystem
(and calls shutdown by default).

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
---
 package/acpid/Config.in | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/acpid/Config.in b/package/acpid/Config.in
index 2bd83ea8b9..b74e9d2262 100644
--- a/package/acpid/Config.in
+++ b/package/acpid/Config.in
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 config BR2_PACKAGE_ACPID
 	bool "acpid"
-	depends on BR2_x86_64 || BR2_i386
 	help
 	  Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon.
 
-- 
2.11.0

[Buildroot] [PATCH] acpid: drop x86 architecture dependency

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:07:01 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Closes #11241
> 
> While ACPI is historically exclusively a x86 feature, ia64 and (some) arm64
> server platforms also use it.  Furthermore, even if the firmware does not
> provide an ACPI interface and/or the kernel is not built with ACPI support,
> acpid can still be used to command an orderly shutdown of the system as it
> also listens for KEY_POWER / KEY_SUSPEND events from the input subsystem
> (and calls shutdown by default).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
> ---
>  package/acpid/Config.in | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Applied to next, thanks. Even though it's fixing what was reported as a
bug, I don't think this qualifies as a bug, so I've applied to next and
not to master.

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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