On Saturday, 28 July 2007 00:25, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:55:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > My point is we have ACPI dependent on PM, so if you want ACPI, you end
> > > up with all of the STR stuff built in, which is what you don't like (if I
> > > understand that correctly). If we have CONFIG_SUSPEND, you'll be able to
> > > choose ACPI alone. :-)
> >
> > Good point.
> >
> > Anyway, I think the ACPI problem really is as trivial as the following
> > three-liner removal fix. If the user doesn't want suspend, ACPI shouldn't
> > force it on him.
> >
> > A nicer fix might be to also make some of the ACPI helper routines depend
> > on whether they are needed or not (which in turn will depend on whether
> > suspend support has been compiled into the kernel), but quite frankly,
> > that's secondary at least for me.
> >
> > So if we have a few ACPI routines that will never get called (because we
> > don't even enable the interfaces that would *cause* them to be called), I
> > don't think that's a huge problem. It's a beauty wart, but nobody really
> > cares (and it's even something that we could get the compiler to optimize
> > away for us if we really cared).
> >
> > Linus
> >
> > ---
> > Don't force-enable suspend/hibernate support just for ACPI
> >
> > It's a totally independent decision for the user whether he wants
> > suspend and/or hibernation support, and ACPI shouldn't care.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 3 ---
> > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> > index 251344c..22b401b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
> > @@ -11,9 +11,6 @@ menuconfig ACPI
> > depends on PCI
> > depends on PM
> > select PNP
> > - # for sleep
> > - select HOTPLUG_CPU if X86 && SMP
> > - select SUSPEND_SMP if X86 && SMP
> > default y
> > ---help---
> > Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support for
>
> The dependency of SUSPEND_SMP on HOTPLUG_CPU is quite unintuitive, so
> what about something like the patch below?
>
> This should address a main issue behind Len's patch.
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
>
> <-- snip -->
>
>
> An implementation detail of the suspend code that is not intuitive for
> the user is the HOTPLUG_CPU dependency of SOFTWARE_SUSPEND if SMP.
>
> This patch changes SOFTWARE_SUSPEND if SMP to select HOTPLUG_CPU instead
> of depending on it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
>
> ---
>
> kernel/power/Kconfig | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/kernel/power/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig
> @@ -72,9 +72,22 @@ config PM_TRACE
> CAUTION: this option will cause your machine's real-time clock to be
> set to an invalid time after a resume.
>
> +config SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE
> + bool
> + depends on (X86 && !X86_VOYAGER) || (PPC64 && (PPC_PSERIES || PPC_PMAC))
> + depends on SMP
> + default y
> +
> +config SUSPEND_SMP
> + bool
> + depends on SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
> + select HOTPLUG_CPU
> + default y
That should not depend on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND (it's equivalent to HIBERNATION).
Greetings,
Rafael
--
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