2.6.22-rc2: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2
with patches available.

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



Block devices

Subject    : loop devices limited to one single device
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/229
Submitter  : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Handled-By : Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/21/483
Status     : patch available



File systems

Subject    : 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/410
Submitter  : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Handled-By : David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/93
Status     : patch available



Memory management

Subject    : bug in i386 MTRR initialization
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
Submitter  : Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>
Status     : patch available



SATA/PATA

Subject    : pata_via appears to incorrectly detects 40-pin cable
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/273
             http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8142
Submitter  : Francis Russell <francisrussell@btopenworld.com>
Status     : Not really a regression. Alan seems to have a general fix.
             (Tejun Heo)

Subject    : libata reset-seq merge broke sata_sil on sh
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/63
Submitter  : Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Caused-By  : commit 4750def52cb2c21732dda9aa1d43a07db37b0186
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/161
Status     : patch available



x86-64

Subject    : BUG: at mm/slab.c:777 __find_general_cachep()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/17
Submitter  : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Handled-By : Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/19
Status     : patch available



Regards,
Michal

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