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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: ahaning-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Pushing ACPI to 2.4.20?
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:37:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020925123740.A25721@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D90E44B.2030400-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org>; from ahaning-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:16:43PM +0000

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:16:43PM +0000, ahaning-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Shouldn't I be able to at least suspend my machine to RAM and turn off 
> all of the fans and disk, before this goes to the main kernel? Even with 
> APM, I can put the machine in standby/suspend, I just don't get fan 
> control, which is what I'd like.

You'll still be able to use APM.  ACPI is already in the kernel, this is
`just' an update.  It's not good to have this code so far diverged from
what's in the kernel -- many machines, including those I'm paid to work
on, need more recent ACPI code than that in the standard kernel.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-25 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-24 22:16 Pushing ACPI to 2.4.20? ahaning-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww
     [not found] ` <3D90E44B.2030400-mn4gwa5WIIQysxA8WJXlww@public.gmane.org>
2002-09-25 10:07   ` Stephen White
2002-09-25 11:37   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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