Linux 2.6.25

Linux 2.6.25

[Linus Torvalds]

It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who 
found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a 
regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as 
reliably before.

That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding 
things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too, 
they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my 
particular worries.

The full changelog from 2.6.24 is 7.5M, with a 12MB compressed patch. Tons 
and tons has changed, but if you've been following the -rc releases, 
you'll already know about the big things. The changes from the last rc 
(-rc9) are fairly small and mostly pretty trivial, and the shortlog is 
appended.

So it's mostly one-liners, with some updates to drivers (net and usb) and 
to networking that are a bit larger (although a number of the driver 
updates are things like just new ID's etc).

For those of you who haven't followed -rc's, and want the more readable 
overview of what has changed since 2.6.24, I'd suggest the usual sites, 
notably http://kernelnewbies.org/.

And a reminder for git users: while the _full_ changelogs are huge and 
unwieldly and you easily lose sight of the big picture from just bring 
overwhelmed by the details, if you're interested in some particular 
subsystem, using "gitk v2.6.24.. <path-limiter>" is a good way to see what 
has changed in that particular area.

				Linus

---
Adrian Bunk (3):
      [libata] make ali_atapi_dma static
      sh64: add missing #include <asm/fpu.h>'s
      avr32 mustn't select HAVE_IDE

Alexey Dobriyan (1):
      fbdev: fix /proc/fb oops after module removal

Alexey Korolev (1):
      JFFS2 Fix of panics caused by wrong condition for hole frag creation in write_begin

Andrew Morton (2):
      sh: arch/sh/kernel/traps_32.c needs asm/fpu.h
      sh: export empty_zero_page

Atsushi Nemoto (2):
      macb: Call phy_disconnect on removing
      macb: Use semicolon instead of comma for statement

Ayaz Abdulla (1):
      forcedeth: mac address fix

Ben Dooks (3):
      spi: spi_s3c24xx driver must init completion
      spi: spi_s3c24xx must initialize bus_num
      spi: spi_s3c24xx must initialize num_chipselect

Ben Hutchings (1):
      [NET]: Fix kernel-doc for skb_segment

Carlos Corbacho (1):
      rfkill: Fix device type check when toggling states

Chuck Ebbert (1):
      acpi: bus: check once more for an empty list after locking it

David Howells (1):
      FRV: Correctly determine the address of an illegal instruction

David S. Miller (1):
      [IPV6]: Fix ipv6 address fetching in raw6_icmp_error().

Dmitri Vorobiev (1):
      Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt

Eric Dumazet (1):
      [SOCK] sk_stamp: should be initialized to ktime_set(-1L, 0)

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
      USB: remove broken usb-serial num_endpoints check

Gui Jianfeng (1):
      [SCTP]: Fix protocol violation when receiving an error lenght INIT-ACK

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski (1):
      rtl8187: Add missing priv->vif assignments

Ingo Molnar (2):
      revert "sched: fix fair sleepers"
      mm: sparsemem memory_present() fix

Ivo van Doorn (2):
      Add rfkill to MAINTAINERS file
      Update rt2x00 MAINTAINERS entry

J. Bruce Fields (1):
      locks: fix possible infinite loop in fcntl(F_SETLKW) over nfs

James Cameron (1):
      USB: Obscure Maxon BP3-USB Device Support 16d8:6280 for option driver

Jan Kara (1):
      vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs

Jarek Poplawski (2):
      [NET_SCHED] cls_u32: refcounting fix for u32_delete()
      [NET_SCHED] sch_api: fix qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() loop

Jeff Garzik (1):
      [libata] sata_svw: fix reversed port count

Jens Axboe (2):
      io context: increment task attachment count in ioc_task_link()
      block: update git url for blktrace

Joakim Tjernlund (1):
      ucc_geth: fix non-functional fixed phy support

Johannes Berg (1):
      mac80211: remove message on receiving unexpected unencrypted frames

KOSAKI Motohiro (1):
      add "Isolate" migratetype name to /proc/pagetypeinfo

Kay Sievers (5):
      mmc: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
      leds: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
      misc: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
      pcmcia: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug
      serial: fix platform driver hotplug/coldplug

Krzysztof Halasa (1):
      Mark generic HDLC + PPP as broken.

Krzysztof Helt (1):
      acpi thermal trip points increased to 12

Kyle McMartin (1):
      [PARISC] fix signal trampoline cache flushing

Laurent Pinchart (1):
      fs_enet: Don't call NAPI functions when NAPI is not used.

Li Zefan (1):
      memcg: fix oops in oom handling

Linus Torvalds (2):
      Fix locking bug in "acquire_console_semaphore_for_printk()"
      Linux 2.6.25

Manuel Lauss (1):
      sh: fix compressed kernel build

Masakazu Mokuno (1):
      PS3: gelic: fix the oops on the broken IE returned from the hypervisor

Matthias Urlichs (1):
      USB: option.c: add more device IDs

Michael Buesch (2):
      ssb: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing
      b43legacy: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing

Michael Ellerman (1):
      netconsole: only set CON_PRINTBUFFER if the user specifies a netconsole

Nishanth Aravamudan (1):
      Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txt

Oliver Hartkopp (1):
      [CAN]: Update documentation of struct sockaddr_can

Patrick McHardy (3):
      [DCCP]: Fix skb->cb conflicts with IP
      [NET]: Return more appropriate error from eth_validate_addr().
      [BRIDGE]: Fix crash in __ip_route_output_key with bridge netfilter

Paul Bolle (4):
      [ISDN]: Do not validate ISDN net device address prior to interface-up
      MAINTAINERS: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de is subscribers-only
      AFS: Do not describe debug parameters with their value
      it821x: do not describe noraid parameter with its value

Pavel Emelyanov (3):
      [AX25]: Potential ax25_uid_assoc-s leaks on module unload.
      [SCTP]: IPv4 vs IPv6 addresses mess in sctp_inet[6]addr_event.
      [NETFILTER]: ipt_CLUSTERIP: fix race between clusterip_config_find_get and _entry_put

Reinette Chatre (1):
      MAINTAINERS: move to generic repository for iwlwifi

Rusty Russell (2):
      net: make struct tun_struct private to tun.c
      net: check for underlength tap writes

Sergei Shtylyov (4):
      tg3: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms
      Au1200: kill IDE driver function prototypes
      Au1200: IDE driver build fix
      Pb1200/DBAu1200: fix bad IDE resource size

Sonic Zhang (1):
      smc91x driver: fix bug: print warning only in interrupt mode

Stefano Brivio (2):
      b43legacy: fix initvals loading on bcm4303
      b43legacy: fix DMA mapping leakage

Stephen Hemminger (2):
      sky2: missing chip name for Yukon Supreme
      sc92031: sysfs link missing

Thomas Klein (1):
      ehea: Fix DLPAR memory add support

Vitaliy Gusev (2):
      [TCP]: Fix never pruned tcp out-of-order queue.
      [TCP]: Add return value indication to tcp_prune_ofo_queue().

Vlad Yasevich (1):
      [SCTP]: Fix compiler warning about const qualifiers

WANG Cong (1):
      uml: compile error fix

Wei Yongjun (1):
      [SCTP]: Add check for hmac_algo parameter in sctp_verify_param()

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (4):
      [IPV6]: IPv6 extension header structures need to be packed.
      [IPV6]: Use appropriate sock tclass setting for routing lookup.
      [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Ensure disabling multicast RS even if privacy extensions are disabled.
      [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Don't generate temporary address for ip6-ip6 interface.

Zhao Yakui (1):
      rtc: fix the error in the function of cmos_set_alarm

fangxiaozhi (1):
      USB: support more Huawei data card product IDs

tang kai (1):
      USB: option: Add new vendor ID and device ID for AMOI HSDPA modem

yakui.zhao@intel.com (1):
      acpi: unneccessary to scan the PCI bus already scanned

Re: Linux 2.6.25

[david]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who
> found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a
> regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as
> reliably before.
>
> That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding
> things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too,
> they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my
> particular worries.

Rafael,
   could you post the list of the remaining known regressions in 2.6.25. a 
few days ago there were about 2 dozen left, but there was a flurry of 
activity (patching, identifying some as not regressions, others as being 
fixed, etc) so I've lost track of what's left

David Lang

Re: Linux 2.6.25

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, 17 of April 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > It's been long promised, but there it is now. Special thanks to Ingo who
> > found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a
> > regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as
> > reliably before.
> >
> > That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding
> > things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too,
> > they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my
> > particular worries.
> 
> Rafael,
>    could you post the list of the remaining known regressions in 2.6.25. a 
> few days ago there were about 2 dozen left, but there was a flurry of 
> activity (patching, identifying some as not regressions, others as being 
> fixed, etc) so I've lost track of what's left

Yes, I will post that later today.

Thanks,
Rafael

2.6.25: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

As promised, below is the list of reported regressions from 2.6.24 for which
there are no fixes in 2.6.25, AFAICS.

I'm now going to start tracking regressions from 2.6.25, but bug #9832 used
for tracking the regressions from 2.6.24 will stay there, so if you report
a regression from 2.6.24 through the Bugzilla, please make it block that bug.


Listed regressions statistics:

  Date          Total  Pending  Unresolved
  ----------------------------------------
  2008-04-17      193       17          13
  2008-04-13      194       27          22
  2008-04-07      188       29          22
  2008-03-31      177       34          31
  2008-03-27      171       38          30
  2008-03-22      159       35          31
  2008-03-17      148       38          30
  2008-03-16      146       42          35
  2008-03-14      145       45          39
  2008-03-12      143       51          41
  2008-03-11      141       58          43
  2008-03-10      138       66          47
  2008-03-03      115       65          49
  2008-02-25       90       51          39
  2008-02-17       61       45          37


Unresolved regressions
----------------------

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10421
Subject		: Filesystem failing without any warning or etc
Submitter	: Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat@nuclearcat.com>
Date		: 2008-04-07 23:11 (11 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10393
Subject		: ext4 compile error on m68k
Submitter	: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Date		: 2008-04-05 03:30 (13 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/5/19
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/13
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/13/241


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10391
Subject		: 2.6.25-rc7/8: Another resume regression
Submitter	: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Date		: 2008-04-03 15:06 (15 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/3/283


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10377
Subject		: Kernel usually freezes during boot when AC is unplugged - unless CPU_IDLE=n - Asus A6JC
Submitter	: Roman Jarosz <kedgedev@centrum.cz>
Date		: 2008-04-01 16:23 (17 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10369
Subject		: The never ending BEEEEP/__smp_call_function_mask with 2.6.25-rc7
Submitter	: Chr <chunkeey@web.de>
Date		: 2008-03-30 21:09 (19 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/30/87
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/13/243
Handled-By	: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10365
Subject		: usb-storage, error reading the last 8 sectors, regression in 2.6.25-rc7
Submitter	: Sergey Dolgov <solkaa@gmail.com>
Date		: 2008-03-30 11:49 (19 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/30/11


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10320
Subject		: rt2x00 does not associate or give scan results
Submitter	: Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>
Date		: 2008-03-25 06:04 (24 days old)


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10319
Subject		: MacBookPro1,1: on resume (from console) s2ram -f -p does not anymore give me my display back
Submitter	: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Date		: 2008-03-25 04:44 (24 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/2/496
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/6/1
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/40
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/51
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/13/73


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10300
Subject		: volume wheel does not work in 2.6.25-rc6
Submitter	: Romano Giannetti <romano.giannetti@gmail.com>
Date		: 2008-03-21 11:42 (28 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/94
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/14/57


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10290
Subject		: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc6 - kernel BUG at fs/mpage.c:476! on powerpc
Submitter	: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date		: 2008-03-20 13:13 (29 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/20/39


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10235
Subject		: 2.6.25-rc5: Blank Screen with Intel 945
Submitter	: Justin Madru <jdm64@gawab.com>
Date		: 2008-03-12 12:02 (37 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/12/290
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/1/318
Handled-By	: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10082
Subject		: 2.6.25-rc2-git4 - Kernel oops while running kernbench and tbench on powerpc
Submitter	: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date		: 2008-02-20 16:01 (58 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/218
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/71
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/9/25
Handled-By	: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
		  Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9978
Subject		: 2.6.25-rc1: volanoMark regression
Submitter	: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Date		: 2008-02-13 10:30 (65 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/13/128
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/12/52
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/18/81
Handled-By	: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
		  Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


Regressionn with patches
------------------------

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10427
Subject		: e1000e broke e1000
Submitter	: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date		: 2008-04-08 20:39 (10 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/8/256
		  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/14/46
Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15704&amp;action=view


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10366
Subject		: 2.6.25-rc7: warn_on_slowpath triggered
Submitter	: Bob Tracy <rct@frus.com>
Date		: 2008-03-29 17:29 (20 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/29/125
Handled-By	: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/30/245


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10302
Subject		: 2.6.25-git regression with snd-hda-intel on Dell XPS M1330, no analog sound
Submitter	: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
Date		: 2008-03-21 20:03 (28 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/21/295
Handled-By	: Matthew Ranostay <mranostay@embeddedalley.com>
		  Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15766&amp;action=view


Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10153
Subject		: (regression) kernel/timeconst.h bugs with HZ=128
Submitter	: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Date		: 2008-02-26 19:32 (52 days old)
References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/294
Handled-By	: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15114&amp;action=view
		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=15115&amp;action=view


For details, please visit the bug entries and follow the links given in
references.

Thanks,
Rafael

Re: 2.6.25: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

[Thomas Bächler]

Rafael J. Wysocki schrieb:
> As promised, below is the list of reported regressions from 2.6.24 for which
> there are no fixes in 2.6.25, AFAICS.
> 
> I'm now going to start tracking regressions from 2.6.25, but bug #9832 used
> for tracking the regressions from 2.6.24 will stay there, so if you report
> a regression from 2.6.24 through the Bugzilla, please make it block that bug.

Got another regression:

Wakeup from ACPI S3 is broken in 2.6.25, x86_64, last known version is 
2.6.25-rc8git8. My Lenovo Laptop does not wake up from S3. I have no 
time to analyze this further now, but I will try to find out what 
happened later today, will open a bugzilla then.