Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3

Patrizio Bassi
2006-02-13T09:22:36Z

Andrew Morton ha scritto:
> We still have some serious bugs, several of which are in 2.6.15 as well:
>
> - The scsi_cmd leak, which I don't think is fixed.
>
> - The some-x86_64-boxes-use-GFP_DMA-from-bio-layer bug, which causes
> oom-killings.
>
> - The skbuff_head_cache leak, which has been around since at least
> 2.6.11. Another box-killer, but is seems very hard to hit.
> (mki@mozone.net, "the dreaded oom-killer (reproducable in 2.6.11 -
> 2.6.16-rc1) :(")
>
> - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6060: an apparent ACPI
> regression.
>
> - Nathan's "sysfs-related oops during module unload", which Greg seems to
> have under control.
>
> - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6049 - another acpi
> regression. We have the actual offending commit here.
>
> - A couple of random tty-related oopses reported by Jesper Juhl. We
> don't know why these happened - they appear to not be related to the tty
> buffering changes.
>
> - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6038, another box-killing
> acpi regression.
>
> - Various reports similar to
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6011, seemingly related to USB
> PCI quirk handling.
>
> - "Ben Castricum" <lk@bencastricum.nl> reports that ppp has started
> exhibiting mysterious failures (again).
>
> - Nasty warnings from scsi about kobject-layer things being called from
> irq context. James has a push-it-to-process-context patch which sadly
> assumes kmalloc() is immortal, but no other fix seems to have offered
> itself.
>
> - In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5989, Sanjoy Mahajan has
> another regression, but he's off collecting more info.
>
> - Helge Hafting reports a usb printer regression - I don't know if that's
> still live?
>
> - "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as> has another USB/ehci regression
> ("ATI RS480-based motherboard: stuck while booting with kernel >= 2.6.15
> rc1").
>
> - Gerrit Bruchhuser <gbruchhaeuser@gmx.de> seems to have an aic7xxx
> regression ("AHA-7850 doesn't detect scanner anymore") but he doesn't say
> which kernel got it right.
>
> - http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5914 - a sata bug (which is
> quite unremarkable :(), but this one is reported to eat filesystems.
>
> - Patrizio Bassi <patrizio.bassi@gmail.com> has an alsa suspend
> regression ("alsa suspend/resume continues to fail for ens1370")
>
> - Bjorn Nilsson <bni.swe@gmail.com> has an sk99lin regression ("3COM
> 3C940, does not work anymore after upgrade to 2.6.15")
>
> - Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> has an acpi-cpufreq regression
> ("cannot unload acpi-cpufreq")
>
> - "P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr> had an autofs regression ("Regression
> in Autofs, 2.6.15-git"), whic might be fixed now?
>
> - ghrt <ghrt@dial.kappa.ro> reports an alsa regression ("PROBLEM: SB
> Live! 5.1 (emu10k1, rev. 0a) doesn't work with 2.6.15")
>
> - jinhong hu <jinhong.hu@gmail.com> reports what appears to be a qlogic
> regression ("kernel 2.6.15 scsi problem")
>
> - Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> had an NFS problem ("NFS processes
> gettting stuck in D with currrent git").
>
>
>
> These are clear regressions, reported in the last month by people who are
> willing to test patches. They're almost all in subsystems which have
> active and professional maintainers.
>
>
Really sad to say, but my Alsa ens1370 regression due to suspend problem
is still there.
Only fix is reboot actually. Ready to patch :)

PS.

i have a bug similar to:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6038 (marked as blocking by
Andrew)
on my laptop.

but my dma expiry problem only happens during suspend.
I have a Sis 630 chipset with a 2.5" hitachi drive.
Been there...for ages..i can say: always...never got a working 2.6 kernel.
However in my poor opinion it's not blocking on my system, just boring.

Patrizio