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
next prev parent 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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