Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3

David S. Miller
2006-02-13T07:16:17Z

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.