Re: APM driver patch summary

Andreas Steinmetz
2001-12-22T10:55:32Z

I'll have a look over the weekend.

On 22-Dec-2001 Thomas Hood wrote:
> I wrote:
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> Here is an updated list of the patches:
> 1. Notify listener of suspend before drivers (Russell King, me)
> (appended)
> 2. Fix idle handling (Andreas Steinmetz)
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100754277600661&w=2
> 3. Control apm idle calling by runtime parameter (Andrej Borsenkow)
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100852862320955&w=2
> 4. Detect failure to stop CPU on apm idle call (Andrej Borsenkow)
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100869841008117&w=2
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>
> I have just tried to combine these and I have run into trouble.
> Patch 4 applies on top of patch 3, but neither of these applies
> on top of patch 2. Can you guys sort these out into one big
> "fix idle calling" patch that includes a runtime parameter
> to control idle calling, which overrides a default selected
> either by CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE or by a bit of code that checks
> for CPU stoppage?
>
> Or has someone already done this?
>
> The latest Russell King (modified by me) patch is now at:
> http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/apm.html
>
> --
> Thomas Hood
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Andreas Steinmetz
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