Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions

Martin Lorenz
2006-11-09T08:04:58Z

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 09:52:35AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:33:44PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >...
> > The rest is really mostly one-liners (or close) to various subsystems. New
> > PCI ID's, trivial fixes, cifs, dvb, things like that. I'm feeling better
> > about this - there may be a -rc6, but maybe we don't even need one.
> >...
>
> Famous last words... ;-)
>
>
> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc5 compared to 2.6.18.
[...]

compiled the latest git yesterday evening

current kernel is 2.6.19-rc5+ieee80211+e1000-45.3+1909-g6a4abeae-dirty

Commit: 6a4abeaefae897ded6b39ed3f3a84662923e6b60
Author: Martin Lorenz <mlo@gimli.(none)> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:58:44 +0100

which is my e1000 patch

Commit: 17dfbe2264b50308189de1fe4068bdffbf065dfc
Author: Martin Lorenz <mlo@gimli.(none)> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:58:44 +0100

which is the patch to upgrade ieee80211 to V.1.2.15 so I can use ipw3945

Commit: 48797ebd9e8b16fddcd4ef062f792314a6b9219a
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@merom.osdl.org> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:27:54
-0800

...the version I pulled

$ cg-status
Heads:
>master 6a4abeaefae897ded6b39ed3f3a84662923e6b60
origin 082f2f84be5db164280483efa7eb1549d867353d

it's an X60s BTW
>
> Subject : ThinkPad T60: no screen after resume
> References : http://mail.matrix.de/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2006-November/037011.html
> Submitter : Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org>
> Status : unknown
>
>
seems fixed
I have to retest it, but it came back nicely on two subsequent
suspend/resume cycles

> Subject : ThinkPad T60: lose ACPI events after suspend/resume
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/10/39
> Submitter : Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org>
> Status : problem might be fixed by
> commit f9dadfa71bc594df09044da61d1c72701121d802
>

same as above

>
> Subject : i386: more DWARFs and strange messages
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/29/127
> Submitter : Martin Lorenz <martin@lorenz.eu.org>
> Status : should be fixed by
> commit 4b96b1a10cb00c867103b21f0f2a6c91b705db11

none present in my current dmesg

I will keep testing and reporting :-)

thanks a lot
mlo
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