From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:40:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:40:37 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:65293 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:40:19 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.6-pre3 Date: 14 Jun 2001 14:39:40 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <9gbaus$564$1@penguin.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <26832.992400011@ocs4.ocs-net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article , Alan Cox wrote: > >Use pre2. Linus applied a patch that changed the PCI power management stuff >and broke all the drivers. It shouldn't have broken anything. The warning happens, but the function call ends up doing the same thing as it used to - old drivers will just ignore the new argument. It was a necessary step in working ACPI suspend. Which Patrick has working - with caveats. And the fact that Pat happens to work at the same company I do probably has more to do with the fact that Transmeta is obviously interested in suspend issues more than most - and not so much with the fact that he would exert undue influence on me. Linus