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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Niels de Vos <niels.devos@wincor-nixdorf.com>
Cc: linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apm: make apm=power-off configurable like apm=realmode-power-off
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 01:27:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080508012756.9b9bbe5c.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4821C581.8050409@wincor-nixdorf.com>

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On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:06:41 +0200 Niels de Vos <niels.devos@wincor-nixdorf.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Neils,
> > 
> > On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:55:09 +0200 Niels de Vos <niels.devos@wincor-nixdorf.com> wrote:
> >> On some systems (with broken BIOSes?) apm=power-off should be appended
> >> as kernel parameter. apm=realmode-power-off is configurable during 
> >> compile-time. apm=power-off should be configurable likewise.
> >>
> >> On non-SMP systems apm=power-off is the default. For kernels with SMP
> >> support it is not.
> > 
> > We had a similar compile time option that we removed in 2.3.26pre1 in
> > favour of the kernel parameter ...
> 
> Okay, but why not have both options like apm=realmode-power-off?

It was a long time ago ... and APM must be almost dead my now, surely? :-)

Maybe I just never got around to removing the compile time config of real
mode power off.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-07 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07 13:55 [PATCH] apm: make apm=power-off configurable like apm=realmode-power-off Niels de Vos
2008-05-07 14:46 ` Stephen Rothwell
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2008-05-07 15:27     ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]

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