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On 08/12/2009 08:42 AM, Wang, Shane wrote:
> 
> oh, S3 support by TXT is one of TXT support. We have code to secure S3 sleep and resume.
> Without S3 support, TXT code is incomplete.
> 

That doesn't make any sense.

The question is: if the user doesn't want S3, do they still need to
enable S3 in order to be able to use TXT?  Otherwise, this code needs to
be properly conditionalized.

	-hpa

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