From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262389AbVADW0A (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:26:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262386AbVADWY1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:24:27 -0500 Received: from gprs215-128.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.128]:20608 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262273AbVADVvf (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:51:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:51:06 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Adrian Bunk , Diego Calleja , Willy Tarreau , wli@holomorphy.com, aebr@win.tue.nl, solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: APM vs. ACPI, janitor wanted? [was Re: starting with 2.7] Message-ID: <20050104215106.GA1586@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050104210424.GA1619@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > Go ahead and become APM maintainer... APM needs some care. > > > > Problem is that ACPI needs driver model changes, and those affect APM > > too. But noone is using APM these days, so when something breaks > > there, it takes long to discover. > > I wouldn't try it if ACPI support worked on my machines, and I really > wasn't suggesting that effort should go into APM so much as refuting the > notion that people could just use ACPI. I would rather see resources go > into ACPI, as I would be delighted to move into the future. Actually, *lot* of people are working on ACPI (like 4 full-time equivalents or something). I'd be surprised if APM got tenth of that work. So someone hacking APM one hour once a week could do quite a lot of difference. Same ammount of work on ACPI is going to be barely visible. Pavel "It is easy to become APM hero" ;-). -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!