Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

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

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



SCSI

Subject         : lpfc_sli.c: off-by-10
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/284
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown



Virtualization

Subject         : 2.6.22-git17 boot failure (XEN)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/266
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : drivers/net/xen-netfront.c: bogus code
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/256
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Status          : unknown



IA64

Subject         : Regression in serial console on ia64 after 2.6.22
References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m\x118483645914066&w=2
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Caused-By       : Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
                  commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown



Sparc64

Subject         : "build-id" changes break sparc64
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/38
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Caused-By       : Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
                  commit 18991197b4b588255ccabf472ebc84db7b66a19c
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown



Regards,
Michal

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Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions

[Horms]

> IA64
> 
> Subject         : Regression in serial console on ia64 after 2.6.22
> References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m\x118483645914066&w=2
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
> Caused-By       : Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
>                   commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e
> Handled-By      : ?
> Status          : unknown

This was fixed by ensuring that machvex is set up before the
serial console

a07ee86205808d36973440e68c7277f9ed63b87f in Linus' tree

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