2.6.19-rc1: known regressions (v3)

Adrian Bunk
2006-10-10T05:10:19Z

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc1 compared to 2.6.18
that are not yet fixed Linus' tree.

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly
involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.

Subject : sata-via doesn't detect anymore disks attached to VIA vt6421
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7255
Submitter : Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com>
Status : unknown

Subject : monitor not active after boot
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/338
Submitter : Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Caused-By : Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
commit 346bc21026e7a92e1d7a4a1b3792c5e8b686133d
Status : unknown

Subject : SMP x86_64 boot problem
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/28/330
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/289
Submitter : art@usfltd.com
Status : submitter was asked to git bisect
result of bisecting seems to be wrong

Subject : sleep/wakeup on powerbooks apparently busted
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/13
Submitter : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Handled-By : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Status : Benjamin will investigate

Subject : w83781d modprobing failure
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7293
Submitter : Sylvain BERTRAND <sylvain.bertrand@gmail.com>
Caused-By : David Hubbard <david.c.hubbard@gmail.com> (?)
commit 8202632647278eba7223727dc442f49227c040d0 (?)
Handled-By : Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Status : Jean is investigating

Subject : CD/DVD drives lost capabilities
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/1/45
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7284
Submitter : Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Caused-By : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
commit 4aff5e2333c9a1609662f2091f55c3f6fffdad36
Handled-By : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Status : Jens is working on a fix

Subject : snd-hda-intel <-> forcedeth MSI problem
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/40
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/7/164
Submitter : Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
Status : suggested workaround for 2.6.19:
deactivate MSI in snd-intel-hda by default

Subject : DVB frontend selection causes compile errors
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/8/244
Submitter : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By : "Andrew de Quincey" <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
commit 176ac9da4f09820a43fd48f0e74b1486fc3603ba
Handled-By : Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
"Andrew de Quincey" <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
Status : possible workaround: don't allow CONFIG_DVB_FE_CUSTOMISE=y

Subject : ueagle-atm Oops
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/390
Submitter : Ernst Herzberg <list-lkml@net4u.de>
Caused-By : Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
commit e7ccdfec087f02930c5cdc81143d4a045ae8d361
Handled-By : Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Laurent Riffard
Patch : https://mail.gna.org/public/ueagleatm-dev/2006-10/msg00022.html
Status : "patch available, but some cleaning is needed"

Subject : oops in xfrm_register_mode
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/170
Submitter : Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Handled-By : Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Status : patch available

Subject : doesn't boot on iBook G4
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/305
Submitter : Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Handled-By : Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/80
Status : patch available

Subject : airo suspend fails
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/3
Submitter : Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>
Caused-By : Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> (?)
commit 3b4c7d640376dbccfe80fc4f7b8772ecc7de28c5 (?)
Handled-By : Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/7/139
Status : patch available

Subject : kexec broken on x86_64
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/86
Submitter : Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/199
Status : patch available

Subject : NFSv4 fails to mount (timeout)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7274
Submitter : Torsten Kaiser <kernel@bardioc.dyndns.org>
Caused-By : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
commit 51b6ded4d9a94a61035deba1d8f51a54e3a3dd86
Handled-By : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7274
Status : patch available