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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:09:21 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]
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Hi!

> This patch (a minor update on one that I accidently left lkml out of the To:) 
> removes the "General Options" top level config menu from the i386 build for 
> 2.5.20. It didn't describe what it was doing, and it contained a broad 
> collection of mostly unrelated configuration options.
> To replace it, you now get:
> "Power management options (ACPI, APM)", which also includes software suspend.
> "Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)"
> "Executable file formats"

Good.

> While moving software suspend, I also took the chance to tweak the Config.help 
> entry.

Please don't tell people about sysrq-D, I'm going to kill that. OTOH convient
way is echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep -- that is if you have ACPI enabled.

Swsusp is required for suspend-to-ram, too. I plan to fix that somehow,
however.
									Pavel
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