Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_PM altogether, enable power managementall the time

[Tim Bird]

On 02/09/2011 11:25 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:00:17AM -0800, Frank Rowand wrote:
> 
>> and my understanding of this proposal was a goal to remove the ability
>> to have CONFIG_PM disabled, which results in increased memory usage
>> for some configurations.
> 
> Not really, the goal was to simplify the PM config options to ones that
> are actually useful and cut down on the number of silly combinations
> that the randconfigs turn up.  CONFIG_PM is there mostly for historical
> reasons, it doesn't really mean much by itself except as a gate to other
> options.

I'm confused.  Do you plan to retain the option to
turn off PM features completely, or not?  I thought that's
what CONFIG_PM did today.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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