public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:48:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110207124846.GA10442@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1297081335-13631-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>


* Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> It is very rare to find a current system which is both sufficiently
> resource constrained to want to compile out power management support
> and sufficiently power insensitive to be able to tolerate doing so.
> Since having the configuration option requires non-zero effort to
> maintain, with ifdefery in most drivers, but it is used with vanishing
> rarity it is simpler to just remove the option.

Well, either make it dependent on CONFIG_EXPERT or remove the option altogether.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-07 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-07 12:22 [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users Mark Brown
2011-02-07 12:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-02-07 13:26   ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 12:48 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-02-07 13:09   ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 14:13 ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-07 14:18   ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 14:44     ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-07 14:50       ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 15:00         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-02-07 15:10           ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-07 15:19             ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-02-07 15:21               ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 15:36                 ` Alan Stern
2011-02-07 15:49                   ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 19:16                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08  1:17                     ` Ray Lee
2011-02-08 11:18                       ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 19:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-07 19:30   ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 19:46     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-07 20:18       ` Mark Brown
2011-02-07 21:15         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-07 21:47           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-07 22:00             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-07 22:23               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-07 23:05                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08  0:50                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-02-08  9:23                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 16:48                   ` Paul Mundt
2011-02-08 12:12           ` Mark Brown
2011-02-08 12:21           ` [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_PM altogether, enable power management all the time Ingo Molnar
2011-02-08 21:18             ` [PATCH 0/5] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 21:20               ` [PATCH 1/5] ACPI / PM: Move references to pm_flags into sleep.c Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 23:40                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-09  0:37                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-09  1:04                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-08 21:21               ` [PATCH 2/5] PM: Make CONFIG_PM depend on (CONFIG_PM_SLEEP || CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME) Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 21:21               ` [PATCH 3/5] PM: Reorder power management Kconfig options Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 21:22               ` [PATCH 4/5] PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_OPS with CONFIG_PM Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 21:23               ` [PATCH 5/5] PM: Clean up Kconfig dependencies Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 23:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-10 23:32                 ` [Updated][PATCH 5/5] PM: Clean up PM_TRACE dependencies and drop unnecessary Kconfig option Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-08 23:35             ` [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_PM altogether, enable power management all the time Frank Rowand
2011-02-09 11:41               ` Mark Brown
2011-02-09 11:58                 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-09 17:07                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-02-09 18:31                   ` Frank Rowand
2011-02-09 18:40                     ` Mark Brown
2011-02-09 19:00                       ` Frank Rowand
2011-02-09 19:25                         ` Mark Brown
2011-02-09 19:53                           ` Tim Bird
2011-02-09 19:59                             ` Mark Brown
2011-02-09 20:09                               ` Alan Stern
2011-02-09 20:10                                 ` Mark Brown
2011-02-08 23:35             ` Tim Bird
2011-02-09  2:41               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-08  2:52 ` [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users Frank Rowand
2011-02-08 14:15   ` Mark Brown
2011-02-08 14:29 ` Pavel Machek

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20110207124846.GA10442@elte.hu \
    --to=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com \
    --cc=dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com \
    --cc=len.brown@intel.com \
    --cc=linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=rjw@sisk.pl \
    --cc=stern@rowland.harvard.edu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox