Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 14:38:39 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Sebastian Kloska <kloska@scienion.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x
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Hi!

> My impression is that APM is slowly degenerating while ACPI is not
> (yet ?) able to fill the gap. The suspend feature of ACPI is stated to
> be dangerous and experimental and does not work for me at all.

That sounds about right.

> After all this bashing...
> 
> Is there anyone out there who has the same experiences ?
> 
> Is there a workaround ?
> 
> Is it possible to somehow downgrade APM in the 2.6 kernel
> to the 2.4.x state ?
> 
> How could one debug this kind of missbehaviour ? Where do
> I have to look for potential miss configurations of the system ?
> 
> I'm really willing  to help the APM developers to track down this bug
> but don't have a clue how to debug this kind stuff.

What APM developers? There are none as far as I know.

Try removing calls to device_* in apm.c. Better yet become APM
developer.

							Pavel
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