Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:35:41 +0100
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 reported since
> 2.6.24-rc1 was released, for which there are no fixes in the mainline I know
> of. __If any of them have been fixed already, please let me know.
> 
> If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know
> either and I'll add them to the list. __Also, please let me know if any of the
> entries below are invalid.
> 
> Listed regressions statistics:
> 
>   Date          Total  Pending  Unresolved
>   ----------------------------------------
>   Today           157       25          12

There are thirteen regressions for which we have patches but they aren't
merged.  That seems rather high.

(cc's added).

Guys, can we get things wrapped up here please?

> 
> Subject		: [2.6.24-rc6] pdflush still stuck in D state regression
> Submitter	: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko@ursulin.net>
> Date		: 2007-11-02 09:54
> References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9291
> Handled-By	: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14219&action=view
> 
> 
> Subject		: snd_hda_intel 2.6.24-rc2 bug: interrupts don't always work on Lenovo X60s
> Submitter	: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
> Date		: 2007-11-08 14:55
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332
> Handled-By	: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66
> 
> 
> Subject		: jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3
> Submitter	: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
> Date		: 2007-11-29 08:36
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/24/53
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475
> Handled-By	: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/132
> 
> 
> Subject		: 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails
> Submitter	: Mike Houston <mikeserv@bmts.com>
> Date		: 2007-12-06 17:10
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/466
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9514
> Handled-By	: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
> Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14267&action=view
> 
> 
> Subject		: RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv6/addrconf.c (2164)/RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1055)
> Submitter	: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
> Date		: 2007-12-11 03:20
> References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9543
> Handled-By	: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 		  Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 		  Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
> Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9543#c6
> 
> 
> Subject		: PATA_HPT37X embezzles two ports
> Submitter	: "Bjoern Olausson" <lkmlist@gmail.com>
> Date		: 2007-12-12 11:05
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/12/161
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9551
> Handled-By	: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/161
> 
> 
> Subject		: wake on lan fails with sky2 module
> Submitter	: cpo <supersud501@yahoo.de>
> Date		: 2008-01-09 13:05
> References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721
> 		  http://marc.info/?t=119992349300001&r=1&w=4
> Handled-By	: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
> Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14455&action=view
> 
> 
> Subject		: psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
> Submitter	: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
> Date		: 2007-11-14 21:26
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/14/363
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9727
> Handled-By	: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/151
> 

Looks like Dmitry has just sent this in to Linus.

> 
> Subject		: regression: sysctl_check changes in 2.6.24 are O(n) resulting in slow creation of 10000 network interfaces
> Submitter	: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
> Date		: 2008-01-06 23:03
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/6/248
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9736
> Handled-By	: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/60
> 
> 
> Subject		: Oops on boot from laptop mode writing to /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling
> Submitter	: Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li>
> Date		: 2008-01-14 11:19
> References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9747
> Handled-By	: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
> Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14456&action=view
> 
> 
> Subject		: fs/hfs/btree.c: new NULL dereference
> Submitter	: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> Date		: 2008-01-14 13:17
> References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9748
> Handled-By	: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/14/365

I sent this fix to Linus a few minutes ago.

> 
> Subject		: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang
> Submitter	: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
> Date		: 2008-01-15 06:25
> References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/4
> 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9757
> Handled-By	: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/2
> 

I think Dave just sent this one.

> 
> Subject		: radeonfb and Xpress 200m 5955
> Submitter	: Alex <alevkovich@tut.by>
> Date		: 2008-01-16 01:33
> References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9762
> Handled-By	: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14481&action=view
> 

I just sent this one.