On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:07:56AM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > some months ago I sent to the MIPS and ARM mail lists a patch to unify > the several APM emulation codes adding a new dedicated directory so it > can be used to put there the per board specific code avoiding code > duplications (see files ./arch/arm/kernel/apm.c, > ./arch/mips/kernel/apm.c and ./arch/sh/kernel/apm.c that are almost > the same). > > The patch is here > "http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2006-07/msg00144.html"; > and it has been lost in the deep space... > Not quite, the rationale for it being dropped was here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/485831 However, it has since been reposted: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/485833 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/485834 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/485835 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/485837 and merged back in to -mm. This is all post 2.6.20 stuff, though..
