On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Len Brown wrote: > From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> > > There is some doubt whether the APM idle feature > to call into the BIOS from the idle loop is reliable. > Certainly it was known to fail on some machines, > but more importantly, APM machines have not shipped > for a decade and so finding machines to test the code > is problematic. > > After this patch, systems running in APM mode will > simply run default_idle() and HALT without calling > into the BIOS from their idle loop. > > This deletes a much-maligned modular user of the (pm_idle)() > function pointer. > > Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Jiri, > If you can review, test, ack, that would be great. > I'll probably end up shipping this via the idle tree > because subsequent patches to delete pm_idle > will depend on it. Looks fine, works here. Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Thanks Len. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
