confusing ACPI, APM menu dependencies

confusing ACPI, APM menu dependencies

[Robert P. J. Day]

  in "make xconfig" for 2.6.0-test1-ac2, the menu entries for
power management are a little confusing.

  the top-level entry for "Power management options (ACPI, APM)"
seems to suggest that you have to at least select this top-level
entry before you can be more specific.

  yet, even without selecting this, you can still select ACPI.
this is definitely a bit confusing given the label and help
screens for these menu entries.

  can someone clarify this?  or perhaps reword the menu entries
to make it more obvious what the choices and dependencies are.

rday

Re: confusing ACPI, APM menu dependencies

[Luiz Capitulino]

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Em Sex, 2003-07-18 às 09:42, Robert P. J. Day escreveu:
>   in "make xconfig" for 2.6.0-test1-ac2, the menu entries for
> power management are a little confusing.

 I'm not sure if this is right (the software suspend help says
that it does not depends on PM, so I removed it).

 Look if you like it.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino

<lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>
<http://www.telecentros.sp.gov.br>

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diff -Nru linux-2.6.0-test1-ac2/arch/i386/Kconfig linux-2.6.0-test1-ac2~/arch/i386/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.0-test1-ac2/arch/i386/Kconfig	2003-07-14 13:23:54.000000000 -0300
+++ linux-2.6.0-test1-ac2~/arch/i386/Kconfig	2003-07-18 10:21:47.000000000 -0300
@@ -820,37 +820,6 @@
 	  will issue the hlt instruction if nothing is to be done, thereby
 	  sending the processor to sleep and saving power.
 
-config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
-	bool "Software Suspend (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PM && SWAP
-	---help---
-	  Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM.
-	  You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>' 
-	  (patch for sysvinit needed). 
-
-	  It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next
-	  booting the, pass 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' and kernel will 
-	  detect the saved image, restore the memory from
-	  it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
-	  If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume'
-	  kernel option. However note that your partitions will be fsck'd and
-	  you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files.
-
-	  Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
-	  in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
-	  involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
-	  on disk won't match with saved ones.
-
-	  SMP is supported ``as-is''. There's a code for it but doesn't work.
-	  There have been problems reported relating SCSI.
-
-	  This option is about getting stable. However there is still some
-	  absence of features.
-
-	  For more information take a look at Documentation/swsusp.txt.
-
-source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
-
 config APM
 	tristate "Advanced Power Management BIOS support"
 	depends on PM
@@ -996,6 +965,37 @@
 	  a work-around for a number of buggy BIOSes. Switch this option on if
 	  your computer crashes instead of powering off properly.
 
+config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
+	bool "Software Suspend (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && SWAP
+	---help---
+	  Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM.
+	  You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>' 
+	  (patch for sysvinit needed). 
+
+	  It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next
+	  booting the, pass 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' and kernel will 
+	  detect the saved image, restore the memory from
+	  it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
+	  If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume'
+	  kernel option. However note that your partitions will be fsck'd and
+	  you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files.
+
+	  Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
+	  in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
+	  involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
+	  on disk won't match with saved ones.
+
+	  SMP is supported ``as-is''. There's a code for it but doesn't work.
+	  There have been problems reported relating SCSI.
+
+	  This option is about getting stable. However there is still some
+	  absence of features.
+
+	  For more information take a look at Documentation/swsusp.txt.
+
+source "drivers/acpi/Kconfig"
+
 source "arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Kconfig"
 
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