From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262304AbVGMS4h (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:56:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262340AbVGMSyU (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:54:20 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:21175 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262397AbVGMSxS (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:53:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:53:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.13-rc3 In-Reply-To: <200507131259.04855.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <200507131259.04855.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" >