Re: [PATCH] PM: make freezer optional for suspend

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday, 15 of November 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > > > > +config SUSPEND_FREEZER
> > > > > +	bool "Enable freezer for suspend to RAM/standby" if ADB_PMU || BROKEN
> > > > 
> > > > Hm, is ADB_PMU specific to powerpc?
> > > 
> > > Yes, and it's the only code that allows you to suspend w/o the freezer
> > > right now (via PMU specific ioctls)
> > 
> > It's a bit confusing for someone who doesn't know what ADB_PMU is.
> > 
> > Perhaps it might depend on something like ARCH_CAN_DO_WITHOUT_FREEZER instead?
> 
> It can't really. Things break. Ben and Paul just don't want to hear
> about it. I made it depend on BROKEN so people can take it out and see
> what breaks (to possibly fix it), and depend on ADB_PMU so they can have
> their favourite setting without enabling BROKEN.

I understand that, but it's a bit confusing to put ADB_PMU, which is specific
to powerpc, into the generic configuration file.

Greetings,
Rafael