2.6.15-rc7: known regressions

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.15-rc7 compared to 2.6.14.

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one 
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch 
of you was declared guilty for a breakage or in any other way involved 
with one or more of these issues.


Subject    : cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap() may sleep under tasklist_lock
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/28/63
Submitter  : Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Status     : unknown

Subject    : /sys/class/net/<device name>/wireless directory is gone
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5800
             http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113619905529636&w=2
Submitter  : Ismail Donmez <ismail@uludag.org.tr>
Handled-By : Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Status     : patch available

Subject    : USB handoff, irq 193: nobody cared!
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/14/274
Submitter  : Michael Madore <michael.madore@gmail.com>
Status     : unknown, caused by a patch by David Brownell

Subject    : BUG: spinlock recursion on 2.6.14-mm2 when oprofiling
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/18/95
Submitter  : Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Handled-By : "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Status     : unknown, reported against -mm, already fixed in -mm
             (make-rcu-task_struct-safe-for-oprofile.patch)
             Is this bug present in Linus' tree?

Subject    : oops in kernel 2.6.15-rc{6,7}
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/28/75
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/30/119
Submitter  : Mathias Klein <ma_klein@gmx.de>
Status     : unknown

Subject    : No sound with snd_intel8x0 & ALi M5455 chipset
             (kobject_register failed)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5760
Submitter  : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Status     : submitter was asked to do a binary search for
             the guilty patch

Subject    : No sound from CX23880 tuner w. 2.6.15-rc5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/12/190
             http://www.spinics.net/lists/vfl/msg22791.html
Submitter  : "P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>
Handled-By : Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
             Torsten Seeboth <Torsten.Seeboth@t-online.de>
Status     : regression in cx88-tvaudio.c, no patch known

Subject    : x86_64: PANIC: early exception
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5758
Status     : Andi considers his patch too risky for 2.6.15,
             workaround available, should be noted in the
             final 2.6.15 announcement


cu
Adrian

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