From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:13:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20060212.231305.38639889.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:42979 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751185AbWBMHQR (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:16:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, luming.yu@intel.com, lk@bencastricum.nl, sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk, helgehaf@aitel.hist.no, fluido@fluido.as, gbruchhaeuser@gmx.de, Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net, perex@suse.cz, tiwai@suse.de, patrizio.bassi@gmail.com, bni.swe@gmail.com, arvidjaar@mail.ru, p_christ@hol.gr, ghrt@dial.kappa.ro, jinhong.hu@gmail.com, andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, bcrl@kvack.org From: "Brown, Len" 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.