On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 05:41:48AM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > From: Len Brown <[email protected]> > > We don't want to export the pm_idle function pointer to modules. > Currently CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE w/ CONFIG_APM_MODULE forces us to. > > CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is of dubious value, it runs only on 32-bit > uniprocessor laptops that are over 10 years old. It calls into > the BIOS during idle, and is known to cause a number of machines > to fail. > > Removing CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE and will allow us to stop exporting > pm_idle. Any systems that were calling into the APM BIOS > at run-time will simply use HLT instead.
Same as the other patch, I'm not going to apply this to a stable tree greg k-h _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
