Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755613Ab1DDUTB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:19:01 -0400 Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.11]:65452 "EHLO vms173011pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755558Ab1DDUS6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 16:18:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:18:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown X-X-Sender: lenb@x980 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Stephen Rothwell , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] APM: delete APM in Linux-2.6.40 In-reply-to: <20110404164456.GA13215@elf.ucw.cz> Message-id: References: <20110324154505.934a56a0.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20110324102116.GA17446@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20110325010705.GB4535@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20110404164456.GA13215@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LFD 1266 2009-07-14) 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: 824 Lines: 24 > I still have working thinkpad 560X, my brother occassionaly uses it... There is no doubt that there are still people running Linux on old APM laptops. The question, however, is if they're running (or will run) the latest upstream kernel. Further, are they available to test APM patches to the latest upstream kernel. > I do not think we should remove APM support like this. It does not > seem to be huge maintainance burden... Last week we decided not to delete APM yet. The jury is still out on APM's idle hooks. cheers, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/