On Friday 01 November 2002 21:31, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:21:56PM +0100, Jos Hulzink wrote:
> > Other issue: Are ACPI and APM not mutually exclusive ? If so, I would
> > propose a selection box: <ACPI> <APM> <none> with related options shown
> > below. Hmzz.. there the issue of the fact that ACPI is more than power
> > management shows up again.
>
> Whilst they can't both run at the same time, it's perfectly possible
> (and useful) to build a kernel with both included. ACPI will quit
> if APM is already running, so booting with apm=off turns the same
> kernel into 'ACPI mode'
Hmzz.. in that case I vote for dropping CONFIG_PM in favour of CONFIG_APM || CONFIG_ACPI, even though it requires some more typing for the programmers. (I'm no ACPI programmer, so I don't care ;-)
Jos
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