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Description of problem:
This is a request, not a bug report:

It is well known that Linux Advanced Power Management (APM) is incompatible with 
SMP support.  That's why the kernel disables APM support at boot time.  So why 
is RedHat/Fedora building SMP kernels with APM enabled?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1526_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot SMP kernel
2.Note logged message stating that APM is being disabled
3.
  

Actual Results:  Logged messages at boot time:
kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
kernel: apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.


Expected Results:  Kernels should not be built with incompatible options.


Additional info:

In future SMP kernel builds, please do not waste memory by building the unusable 
APM support.  Thank you.