On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... > > um ... what does APM have to do with legacy PM? two different > > issues, no? > Since the patches are going into apm.c and apm was used for suspend > and poweroff before ACPI was a feature of the hardware, I assume > there's a relationship. As of 2.6.9 ACPI still couldn't power down > one of my old boxes, it hasn't been updated since that time, so I > can't say what later kernels will do. perhaps i completely misunderstood what i was looking at but when i submitted a patch to remove "legacy power management," i wasn't referring to APM. i was talking about the PM stuff even *older* than that, that's listed as "Legacy Power Management API (DEPRECATED)" under the PM config menu. so, politics and scheduling aside, was that earlier patch a reasonable and correct way to do *that*? 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
