From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff. Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:10:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20070418201036.GA2112@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200704131022.45315.rjw@sisk.pl> <46254666.2020308@tmr.com> <46265F60.4040600@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46265F60.4040600@tmr.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: pm list , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >>One reason was that there are (were?) a number of machines which only = > >>powered > >>down properly using apm. It was discussed as part of shutting down afte= r = > >>power > >>failure when your UPS is running out of power. > >> = > > > >um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM? two different issues, > >no? > > = > Since the patches are going into apm.c and apm was used for suspend and = > poweroff before ACPI was a feature of the hardware, I assume there's a = > relationship. As of 2.6.9 ACPI still couldn't power down one of my >old There is not. The patches should not affect you unless you use obscure 68000 driver. We are removing infrastructure that has no users. Pavel -- = (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html