Re: 2.5.45 build failed with ACPI turned on

[Jos Hulzink]

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