Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751220AbWBMIFf (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:05:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751222AbWBMIFf (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:05:35 -0500 Received: from fmr18.intel.com ([134.134.136.17]:28820 "EHLO orsfmr003.jf.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751196AbWBMIFd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:05:33 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:02:46 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Thread-Index: AcYwbXiRFU740E2oSpy5EoK2eFFRjAABMNOg From: "Brown, Len" To: "David S. Miller" Cc: , , , , , , , , "Yu, Luming" , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Feb 2006 08:02:50.0559 (UTC) FILETIME=[E278FCF0:01C63073] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1074 Lines: 24 >> >- In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5989, Sanjoy >> >Mahajan has another regression, but he's off collecting more info. >> >> We're talking here about a system from 1999 where Windows 98 >> refuses to run in ACPI mode and instead runs in APM mode. > >If it worked before a change which was installed, it's a regression >regardless of whether another OS tries to use ACPI on that system or >not. I don't understand how one can use that fact to label this as >not a regression from Linux's perspective. I don't think anybody claimed this isn't a regression for the 600X. Sanjoy has done a wonderful job documenting that. My point is that it that on the grand scale of bugs serious enough to have an effect on the course of 2.6.16, this one doesn't qualify unless the same issue is seen on other systems. -Len - 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/