2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches

2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1
with patches available.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

List of Aces

Name                    Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Andi Kleen                             4
Linus Torvalds                         4
Adrian Bunk                            3
Andrew Morton                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Al Viro                                2
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Tejun Heo                              2



Unclassified

Subject         : Regression with sys_time() speedup patch
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/205
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/219
Status          : patch available

Subject         : kobject link failure
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/495
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
                  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/143
Status          : patch available

Subject         : Kconfig prompts without help text
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/326
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/236
Status          : patch available

Subject         : Oops while modprobing phy fixed module
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/63
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Caused-By       : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
                  commit 3007e997de91ec59af39a3f9c91595b31ae6e08b
Handled-By      : Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
                  Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
                  Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/506
Status          : patch available



FS

Subject         : ia64 build failure from recent diskquota patch
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/407
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Caused-By       : Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
                  commit b716395e2b8e450e294537de0c91476ded2f0395
Handled-By      : Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/255
Patch2          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/272
Status          : patch available



Media

Subject         : usbvision: don't return an uninitialized value
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Status          : patch available



Regards,
Michal

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Re: 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> Subject         : Regression with sys_time() speedup patch
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/205
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/219
> Status          : patch available

this has been resolved in -rc1 already, by:

commit 2008220879af095d00ca27eb168a55c8595fbc0b

	Ingo 

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:47:44AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Unclassified
> 
> Subject         : kobject link failure
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/495
> Last known good : ?

This is caused by a patch that happened after 2.6.22 was released, so it
is a regression.

> Submitter       : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
>                   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/143
> Status          : patch available

I'll be sending Cornelia's patch to Linus within the week to fix this.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski]

On 24/07/07, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:47:44AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > Unclassified
> >
> > Subject         : kobject link failure
> > References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/495
> > Last known good : ?
>
> This is caused by a patch that happened after 2.6.22 was released, so it
> is a regression.

Yes, I know. "?" is a default value. When someone says that bug
appeared after 2.6.22-git7 I'm adding this information to "Last known
good".

>
> > Submitter       : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
> > Caused-By       : ?
> > Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
> >                   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/143
> > Status          : patch available
>
> I'll be sending Cornelia's patch to Linus within the week to fix this.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

Regards,
Michal

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Re: 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches

[Tejun Heo]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Subject         : Oops while modprobing phy fixed module
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/63
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
> Caused-By       : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
>                   commit 3007e997de91ec59af39a3f9c91595b31ae6e08b
> Handled-By      : Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
>                   Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
>                   Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
> Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/506
> Status          : patch available

Patch is in mainline.  Commit a1da4dfe35bc36c3bc9716d995c85b7983c38a76.

Thanks.

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