-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Andy Green wrote: | |> What it impacts is what we should test against. | | Exactly my point. | |> It's fine there are an |> uncontrolled number of rootfs out there with random things in, but it |> means I don't have time to test against them and rely on the users of |> the rootfs to inform about problems. | | And that's exactly what we have in this case -- a report from a user. | |> It looks like Jeremy is planning to be "internal tester" for kernel on |> whatever rootfs he prefers | | Great. But let's not summarily dismiss the bug reports from others who | choose not to use whatever rootfs that turns out to be.
Really. Well, I'll give your wisdom about that some deep thought. |> Does Android need APM or is this just FUD? | | Android was mentioned because it is a prominent example of an external | rootfs that the Om kernel team seems to take seriously. I *do* know for So, just FUD. | a fact that the FSO distro and the SHR distros both use apmd, and the | rootfs' with the pre-canned Qtopia and the Qt Extended rootfs' both use | apmd. I'm not sure what the Debian rootfs uses, but I believe it to be | apmd as well. Hey you know that guy who writes the weekly Openmoko reports, even he said 20th Oct: ''I would like to make an unrequested announcement for the sake of the good vertical communication: Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled in. This has been deprecated for years and is doomed to go away. Hopefully apm -s will still work for suspend, but userspace applications that still use the deprecated apm interface SHOULD take action, preferably sooner than later.'' http://lwn.net/Articles/303942/ You know thinking about this 2.6.28 step up is probably the right time to disable APM in the kernel completely if that's really a good idea. There's already a bunch of attention needed for the move, and people in all rootfs will be aware that this update is coming. At the moment we have APM emulation and CONFIG_APM_POWER in there, tomorrow I'll give it a go with these disabled and see what blows up. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk8V6oACgkQOjLpvpq7dMrFvgCdH69lhJ2lgTZ86rUMDTt+N0hT tkgAniSkV2WqWeAc671wt87Wfsr1EOQX =2vql -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
