On Thursday, 21 of February 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 19 of February 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Hi, > > > > > Could anyone explain me why APM depends on PM_SLEEP? > > > > Because it refers to the code in drivers/base/power/main.c that depends on > > PM_SLEEP. > > > > > Isn't it a valid configuration, when I don't want to sleep / suspend, but > > > need APM to, say, turn my machine off using > > > APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF, or if I need APM_DISPLAY_BLANK? > > > > Yes, in theory, but that would require some more fine-grained #ifdeffing or > > something similar. > > As we see, for example, here: > > http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.2/2215.html > > it also happens in practice. There are configurations in which it doesn't compile when this dependency is removed. I'm not an APM developer/maintainer/whatever and I have _much_ more urgent things to take care of than this one. Thanks, Rafael _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
