Len, ACPI people - can we fix this regression, please?
Rafael even pinpoints exactly which patches are causing the problem, so
why didn't they get reverted before sending them off to me?
Grumble. I don't like being sent known-bad patches when we're trying to
calm things down.
Linus
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday, 13 of July 2005 07:05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Yes,
> > it's _really_ -rc3 this time, never mind the confusion with the commit
> > message last time (when the Makefile clearly said -rc2, but my over-eager
> > fingers had typed in a commit message saying -rc3).
> >
> > There's a bit more changes here than I would like, but I'm putting my foot
> > down now. Not only are a lot of people going to be gone next week for LKS
> > and OLS, but we've gotten enough stuff for 2.6.13, and we need to calm
> > down.
>
> FYI, on my box (Asus L5D, Athlon 64 + nForce3, 64-bit kernel) there are two
> regressions wrt -rc2 related to ACPI. First, the battery monitor does not
> work
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4665)
> and second, the box hangs solid during resume from disk if IO-APIC is not used
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4416).
>
> The problems have been known for quite some time and remain unresolved,
> but apparently they have made it to mainline nevertheless. I understand
> nobody else has reported them, but I also know of some people who run
> Linux on the same hardware and 2.6.13 will not work for them if these
> issues are present in it.
>
> Greets,
> Rafael
>
>
> --
> - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
> - That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
> -- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
>
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