Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3

Dave Jones
2006-02-14T04:48:42Z

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:28:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:57:48AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 00:12 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think we can assume that it will be seen there. 2.6.16 is going into
> > > > distros and will have more exposure than 2.6.15,
> > >
> > > 2.6.15 went into distros as well, such as Fedora Core 4 ;)
> >
> > And promptly broke laptop suspension. See, for example:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180998
> >
>
> That's suspend-to-disk, yes?
>
> Dave, would you have the 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 -> 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 details
> handy? There surely can't be much difference?

Tiny changes.
- The icmp remote DoS fix.
- Dropped a patch that broke booting with 'quiet' bootparam
- the 'dm_crypt: zero key before freeing it' change

> There seem to be several ACPI problems there. Do we have a reliable means
> of feeding such reports up into the (for example) acpi developers?
>
> <I have this vaguely unsettled feeling that distros must get more bug
> reports than the usptream developers, yet we hear so little about it>

I'd love more hours in the day to push more of them upstream, as
I bet would other vendors kernel maintainers.

Should anyone want to drink from the firehose that is 'redhat kernel bugzilla',
let me know, and I'll see if I can't get a fedora-kernel-bugs mailing
list or the like set up.

Some subsystem maintainers (ACPI for example) really help out here,
and add acpi-bugzilla@list.sourceforge.net to all the Fedora ACPI bugs.
(I believe that list actually gets bug reports from other distro bugzillas too)

(There's also a few 'meta-bugs' -- enter FCMETA_ACPI as a bug id
and you get a link to a dependancy tree showing all the ACPI bugs
reported. There's a bunch of those for various subsystems which
makes it a little easier to track, though again, it's time-consuming
just sorting through stuff). Off the top of my head, theres one
for USB, SCSI, ACPI, ALSA, SATA (All with FCMETA_ prefix)
Some of them are a bit sparse due to lack of time & effort so far.

Dave