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

[Bill Davidsen]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [appropriate CCs added]
>
> On Friday, 13 April 2007 02:33, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > just something i threw together, not in final form, but it represents
> > tossing the legacy PM stuff.  at the moment, the menuconfig entry for
> > PM_LEGACY lists it as "DEPRECATED", while the help screen calls it
> > "obsolete."  that's a good sign that it's getting close to the time
> > for it to go, and the removal is fairly straightforward, but there's
> > no mention of its removal in the feature removal schedule file.
>
> It's been like this for a long long time.  I think you're right that it can be
> dropped, but I don't know the details (eg. why it hasn't been dropped yet).
>  
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.

I haven't checked on that in a while, I'm just supplying one reason 
since you wondered.

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