[oe] MACHINE_FEATURE changes

[Graeme Gregory]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:39:41 +0100
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at vanille-media.de> wrote:

> Am Freitag, den 20.11.2009, 15:30 +0100 schrieb Marcin Juszkiewicz:
> > Dnia piątek, 20 listopada 2009 o 15:24:39 Sebastian Spaeth
> > napisał(a):
> > 
> > > Better suggestions on how to achieve this are welcome.
> > 
> > In distro config:
> > 
> > MACHINE_FEATURES_om-gta01 = "this that those butnoapm"
> > 
> > This way your distro has what you want and others have what was set
> > in machine config.
> 
> Good idea.
> 
> For the records though, I would consider it being the machine
> maintainer's call to define the machine config. If he decides that apm
> is very misleading on said machine, perhaps because without taking
> special care about the peripheral devices there will no be proper
> suspend in the first place, then I might be inclined to follow this
> reasoning and leave apm out there...
> 

That indicates to me that FSO is broken. The last I checked any
application which has opened /dev/apm_bios can choose to hold off
the suspend until it has finished doing stuff(tm)

Turning off machine features for a broken DISTRO sounds wrong.

Graeme