Re: Make apm buildable without legacy pm.

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 08:41:26PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:33:52AM -0500, Dave Jones took 0 lines to write:
> > APM doesn't _need_ the PM_LEGACY junk, so remove it's dependancy
> > from Kconfig, and ifdef the junk in the code.
> > Whilst the ifdefs are ugly, when the legacy stuff gets ripped out
> > so will the ifdefs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/Kconfig~	2005-12-22 22:06:10.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6.14/arch/i386/Kconfig	2005-12-22 22:06:16.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ depends on PM && !X86_VISWS
> >  
> >  config APM
> >  	tristate "APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS support"
> > -	depends on PM && PM_LEGACY
> > +	depends on PM
> >  	---help---
> >  	  APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
> >  	  techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
> 
> Here's this hunk re-diffed against 2.6.15 (which applies without
> needing patch to apply an offset of -11 lines):
>...

Offsets when applying patches are usually completely harmless (problems 
are only possible if there isn't enough context, but that's obviously 
not the case here).

> Kurt

cu
Adrian

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