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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	axboe@suse.de, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, greg@kroah.com,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
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	lk@bencastricum.nl, sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk,
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	Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, perex@suse.cz, tiwai@suse.de,
	patrizio.bassi@gmail.com, bni.swe@gmail.com, arvidjaar@mail.ru,
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	bcrl@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:13:05 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060212.231305.38639889.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B30060BD1D1@hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>

From: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:07:50 -0500

> >- 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-13  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-13  7:07 Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Brown, Len
2006-02-13  7:13 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-02-13  7:43 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-14  6:23 Brown, Len
2006-02-13  8:02 Brown, Len
2006-02-13  8:12 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-13  8:42   ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13  8:57   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-14  3:08     ` Michal Jaegermann
2006-02-14  3:28       ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-14  4:48         ` Dave Jones
2006-02-14  5:29         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-14  6:22         ` Michal Jaegermann
2006-02-16 23:04         ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-14  3:30       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-14  6:55         ` Michal Jaegermann
2006-02-14  5:31       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-14 21:17 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13  6:59 Brown, Len
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602121709240.3691@g5.osdl.org>
2006-02-13  3:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-13  3:22   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-02-13  3:28   ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-02-13  3:36   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-13  4:40   ` James Bottomley
2006-02-13  7:04   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-13  8:11   ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-13  9:22   ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 12:02   ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 12:37     ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 13:13       ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 13:31         ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 14:15           ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 14:34             ` Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13 14:39               ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 13:09     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-02-13 13:51       ` Takashi Iwai
2006-02-13 19:33         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-02-13 20:38   ` Greg KH
2006-02-14 16:34     ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16  1:56       ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 17:12         ` Russell King
2006-02-16 17:34           ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-16 17:57           ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 18:09             ` Russell King
2006-02-16 18:14               ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 18:18                 ` Russell King
2006-02-16 19:09                   ` James Bottomley
2006-02-16 20:01                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-18  0:42                       ` James Bottomley
2006-02-18  1:00                         ` Greg KH
2006-02-18  2:12                         ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-18  5:30                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-18 21:06   ` Helge Hafting

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