Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_PM altogether, enable power managementall the time

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Feb 09 2011 - 14:59:27 EST


On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:53:52AM -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 11:25 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Not really, the goal was to simplify the PM config options to ones that
> > are actually useful and cut down on the number of silly combinations
> > that the randconfigs turn up. CONFIG_PM is there mostly for historical
> > reasons, it doesn't really mean much by itself except as a gate to other
> > options.

> I'm confused. Do you plan to retain the option to
> turn off PM features completely, or not? I thought that's
> what CONFIG_PM did today.

Raphael's patches do that in a much better way than my original patch,
my original patch would have force CONFIG_PM on but still allowed all
the PM features that it controls to be turned on and off individually.
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