To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
From: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:11:34 +0100
Message-ID: <m2acp7reah.fsf@tnuctip.rychter.com>
References: <200503031644.j23Gi0Eh011165@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
	<Pine.LNX.4.58.0503030855460.25732@ppc970.osdl.org>
	<20050303152825.08e7e4c6.akpm@osdl.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.5-b19 (linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:1WEzWD8stDJwWQOhvcD/1/DXUu8=
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 965
Lines: 18

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
 Andrew> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
 >>
 >> Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart
 >> from "gcc4 still has problems" with fairly trivial solutions)

 Andrew> There have been quite a few.  Mainly driver stuff again:
[...]
 Andrew> The biggest problem is the new ACPI-based i8042 probing on
 Andrew> Dells.  I'm kicking myself over that because we *knew* the damn
 Andrew> thing was busted, and people kept on having to add
 Andrew> i8042.noacpi=1.  We now have a three-line
 Andrew> work-around-it-until-we-fix-it-for-real patch.

FWIW, this "minor regression" also occurs on other laptops, such as my
Sharp Mebius.

--J.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/