Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Jan Rychter]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
 Andrew> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
 >>
 >> Now, I haven't actually gotten any complaints about 2.6.11 (apart
 >> from "gcc4 still has problems" with fairly trivial solutions)

 Andrew> There have been quite a few.  Mainly driver stuff again:
[...]
 Andrew> The biggest problem is the new ACPI-based i8042 probing on
 Andrew> Dells.  I'm kicking myself over that because we *knew* the damn
 Andrew> thing was busted, and people kept on having to add
 Andrew> i8042.noacpi=1.  We now have a three-line
 Andrew> work-around-it-until-we-fix-it-for-real patch.

FWIW, this "minor regression" also occurs on other laptops, such as my
Sharp Mebius.

--J.

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