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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmasound_pmac depends on pmac specific config options
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 On Sat, Oct 22, Brad Boyer wrote:

> I disagree. I think a much better solution would be to change the
> code to be conditionalized internally on PMU support, rather than
> having #ifdef CONFIG_PM since the functions being called inside
> that protection are actually out of the PMU code, not the generic
> power management system. By doing this, you could for example
> have a kernel compiled for a 1st gen PCI PowerMac without any
> extra drivers. In this case, you have CUDA and AWACS, but there
> is no PMU support and no need for sleep notifiers.

May patch would allow that, you need either CUDA or PMU support.

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