Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751910Ab1DKNG4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:06:56 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:59560 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750889Ab1DKNGz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:06:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:05:05 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Ingo Molnar , Len Brown , Stephen Rothwell , x86@kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 APM: delete Linux kernel APM support Message-ID: <20110411130505.GA3301@ucw.cz> References: <20110325113048.GC29521@elte.hu> <201103252333.23880.rjw@sisk.pl> <20110408062506.GB1596@ucw.cz> <4D9F7630.1090503@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D9F7630.1090503@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 27 Hi! > >> Well, it kind of does but not really. :-) > >> > >> The main problem with APM is that nobody really works on it and I'm not sure > >> if there are any active users. At least no one reports any problems with it, > >> which is kind of surprising, given the number of chages we've made in the PM > >> core for the last couple of years. So quite likely it's just become > >> non-functional over time anyway, but we have no confirmation. > > > > It was working ok last time I tried -- cca 6/2010. > > What aspects of it did you test, and on what platform? thinkpad 560X. I tested basic boot, IIRC it did turn backlight off properly in screensaver and even suspend worked. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/