From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031281AbXDQWNa (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031289AbXDQWNa (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:13:30 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:41371 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031291AbXDQWN3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:13:29 -0400 Message-ID: <46254666.2020308@tmr.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:12:54 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: "Robert P. J. Day" , pm list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff. References: <200704131022.45315.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200704131022.45315.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [appropriate CCs added] > > On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> just something i threw together, not in final form, but it represents >> tossing the legacy PM stuff. at the moment, the menuconfig entry for >> PM_LEGACY lists it as "DEPRECATED", while the help screen calls it >> "obsolete." that's a good sign that it's getting close to the time >> for it to go, and the removal is fairly straightforward, but there's >> no mention of its removal in the feature removal schedule file. > > It's been like this for a long long time. I think you're right that it can be > dropped, but I don't know the details (eg. why it hasn't been dropped yet). > One reason was that there are (were?) a number of machines which only powered down properly using apm. It was discussed as part of shutting down after power failure when your UPS is running out of power. I haven't checked on that in a while, I'm just supplying one reason since you wondered. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot