Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756791Ab1CXMPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:15:43 -0400 Received: from mail1-out1.atlantis.sk ([80.94.52.55]:55858 "EHLO mail.atlantis.sk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752353Ab1CXMPl (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:15:41 -0400 From: Ondrej Zary To: Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:15:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 (enterprise35 0.20100827.1168748) Cc: Stephen Rothwell , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: X-KMail-QuotePrefix: > MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201103241315.34722.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1490 Lines: 37 On Thursday 24 March 2011, Len Brown wrote: > From: Len Brown > > Signed-off-by: Len Brown > --- > Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 ++++++++ > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b3f35e5..2a03c46 100644 > --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt > @@ -619,3 +619,11 @@ Why: The original implementation of memsw feature > enabled by Who: Michal Hocko > > ---------------------------- > + > +What: CONFIG_APM > +When: 2.6.40 > +Why: Microsoft deleted APM from Windows as of Vista in in 2006. > + It now seems more than safe that the latest Linux Kernel be APM-free. > + The vintage laptops supporting APM are now difficult to find, > + making it problatic to maintain this code. > +Who: Len Brown Please don't turn Linux into second Windows. If you don't want APM in the kernel, just don't compile it. There are many people using older systems with APM - and most of them wouldn't oppose to this removal as they don't even know about it. -- Ondrej Zary -- 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/