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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apm: orphan the driver
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:24:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D90D255.4060008@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110328182123.GX21838@one.firstfloor.org>

On 03/28/2011 11:21 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Or we phase out the APM effort by only supporting it for poweroff, for
>> example.
> 
> Phasing out APM idle at least would be reasonable.  resumably even if the old 
> laptops still work they are likely on AC because their batteries have
> long died. So using a bit more power in idle shouldn't be a big
> issue.
> 
> Not sure about suspend, screen saver etc. I suppose those could
> be kept as frozen legacy features. At least until someone else
> wants to redesign those parts too.
> 

Since poweroff applies even to stationary systems, it's probably the
most important bit.  Suspend/resume the second most important.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-28 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-26  6:22 [PATCH] apm: orphan the driver Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-28 12:44 ` Jiri Kosina
2011-03-28 13:44   ` Stephen Rothwell
2011-03-28 14:05     ` Jiri Kosina
2011-03-28 14:14       ` Joe Perches
2011-03-28 17:24         ` Jiri Kosina
2011-03-28 17:45       ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-28 17:57         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-28 18:21           ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-28 18:24             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-03-28 18:46             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-28 21:19               ` Jiri Kosina
2011-03-31  3:16                 ` [PATCH] x86 idle APM: delete apm_cpu_idle(), and its use of pm_idle Len Brown
2011-03-31  6:56                   ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-01  9:28                   ` Jiri Kosina

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