On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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. um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM? two different issues, no? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
