Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jul 26 2007 - 02:56:08 EST




On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
>
> Feel free to share what you know about the benefits vs. the costs
> of maintaining CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP as a build option.

Why don't you just make CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP dependent on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
and STR?

> If you feel that your system has been degraded
> because it now includes what used to be excluded under
> CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=n, please let me know how.

I feel that I get asked to include a feature that
(a) I have no interest in on that machine
(b) I didn't need to include before.

What was the advantage? And what was it that caused something like this to
be a post-rc1 thing. That makes me really unhappy. This is a *regression*.

Linus
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