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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:59:11PM -0700, Grover, Andrew wrote:

 > This is a tough one because ACPI *is* power management but it is also
 > configuration. It is equivalent to such things as MPS table parsing, $PIR
 > parsing, PNPBIOS, as well as APM. The first two don't have CONFIG_ options
 > at the moment but they should at some point.
 > The only thing I can think of is a "Platform interface options" menu and
 > just throw all of the above in that. Any other ideas?

You seem to be halfway down the road of splitting ACPI in two already,
with the introduction of CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY recently. Why not bundle
such options under a CONFIG_ACPI_INITIALISATION or the likes, and
put the rest under the power management menu as Brad suggested ?

    Dave.

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