Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753732Ab1BIUJp (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:09:45 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:35674 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750979Ab1BIUJn (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:09:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:09:42 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Mark Brown cc: Tim Bird , "Rowand, Frank" , Frank Rowand , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Len Brown , "linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Andrew Morton , Dmitry Torokhov , "linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_PM altogether, enable power management all the time In-Reply-To: <20110209195918.GD23747@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 24 On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:53:52AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > > 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. > > Raphael's patches do that in a much better way than my original patch, > my original patch would have force CONFIG_PM on but still allowed all > the PM features that it controls to be turned on and off individually. Or to put it another way, if you enable any of CONFIG_PM_SUSPEND, CONFIG_PM_HIBERNATION, or CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME, then CONFIG_PM will automatically be turned on. Otherwise it will automatically be turned off. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/