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 <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
