Re: [PATCH][RFC] Kill off legacy power management stuff.

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >>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?
> >  
> 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

There is not. The patches should not affect you unless you use obscure
68000 driver.

We are removing infrastructure that has no users.
									Pavel
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