Re: [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:41:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110325124124.GA31408@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110325123815.GA29936@elte.hu>


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > > Okay, I can delay this way:
> > > 
> > > 2.6.39:
> > > 	feature-removal.txt targets 2.6.42 removal
> > > 	depend on CONFIG_EXPERT
> > > 
> > > 2.6.40, 2.6.41:
> > > 	WARN once on run-time access
> > > 
> > > 2.6.42:
> > > 	remove.
> > 
> > Regardless of removal, i'd suggest a "this code is not supported" kind of 
> > WARN() message to the APM code today, into .39 - to see whether it pops up 
> > anywhere - and mark it for -stable as well.
> > 
> > .42 removal might be too fast, considering the typical release schedule of 
> > Linux distributions. [...]
> 
> Anyway, i'd ack this schedule if you queued up the WARN() today with a -stable 
> tag, on the condition that if we get complaints about that message, we keep APM 
> support.

s/today/for .39

Thanks,

	Ingo

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.2.02.1103232321070.3848@x980>
     [not found] ` <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2011-03-24  7:39   ` [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Len Brown
2011-03-24  8:16     ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Len Brown
2011-03-24  8:31       ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support (v2) Len Brown
2011-03-24 16:01         ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-24  8:39       ` [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Ingo Molnar
2011-03-24 23:49         ` Len Brown
2011-03-25 11:30           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:38             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 12:41               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-03-25 22:33             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-03-26  4:35               ` Len Brown
2011-04-08  6:25               ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-08 20:55                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-11 13:05                   ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-11 18:19                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-13 13:30                       ` Pavel Machek
2011-03-26  5:01             ` Len Brown
2011-03-26  9:31               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-27 21:40               ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-28  4:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-28  5:43                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28 12:57                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28  5:18               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-25 15:41           ` Calvin Walton
2011-03-24  8:18     ` [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-24  8:38     ` Alexander Stein
2011-03-24 10:21     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-24 23:05       ` Len Brown
2011-03-25  1:07         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-25  1:34           ` Len Brown
2011-04-04 16:44           ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-04 20:18             ` Len Brown
2011-03-24 12:15     ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-24 23:29       ` Len Brown
2011-03-25  8:07         ` Ondrej Zary
2011-03-26  5:09           ` Len Brown
2011-04-02 21:40     ` Yuhong Bao

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