Re: [PATCH] apm: orphan the driver

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/28/2011 10:45 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 04:05:14PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>
>>>> I still have some hardware that uses APM and put a new 2.6 on it time 
>>>> to time, so I can take this driver over if you want to. According to 
>>>> git log it's really low effort anyway :)
>>>
>>> If you want it, its yours :-)
>>
>> Not really fighting for maintaining it actively, but can certainly give it 
>> some care when necessary.
> 
> FWIW
> Since Len plans some larger changes to the idle code 
> (moving everything to cpuidle) active care may be needed soon.
> 
> Effectively it would need a APM cpuidle driver.
> 
> Just that you know what you're signing up for...
> 

Or we phase out the APM effort by only supporting it for poweroff, for
example.

	-hpa

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