2.6.16-rc6: known regressions (v2)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.16-rc6 compared to 2.6.15.

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 I'm considering you in any
other way possibly involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.


Subject    : signal_cache slab corruption
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/13/170
Submitter  : Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : edac slab corruption
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/5/14
Submitter  : Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : yet more slab corruption
References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184310
Submitter  : Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : wintv-novaT broken (no devices in in /dev/dvb)
References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181063
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/18/204
Submitter  : Tom Seeley <redhat@tomseeley.co.uk>
             Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Handled-By : Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Status     : submitter tries to bisect to find the guilty change


Subject    : XFS oopses on my box sometimes
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6180
Submitter  : Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Status     : discussion in the bug


Subject    : snd-intel-hda stopped working on a Dell E1705 Laptop
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/12/16
Submitter  : Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Handled-By : Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Status     : Takashi Iwai: This looks like a problem of the latest sigmatel
                           codec code in general. The author of original
                           code is investigating.


Subject    : The init process gets stuck in "D" state during boot.
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6230
Submitter  : Alex Outhred <aouthred@gmail.com>
Handled-By : NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Status     : guilty commit: 04b857f74cec5efc7730e9db47e291310f4708a4


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Adrian

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