Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2.

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

List of Aces

Name                    Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Adrian Bunk                            6
Andi Kleen                             4
Andrew Morton                          4
Linus Torvalds                         4
Al Viro                                3
Cornelia Huck                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Trent Piepho                           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



USB

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: uhci_hcd. irq 4: nobody cared
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/75
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: USB hard disk broken
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/62
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Status          : unknown



Virtualization

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



Regards,
Michal

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Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Virtualization
>
> 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
>   

This is just a chunk of dead code.  It probably doesn't even affect the
generated code.  I've got a patch here for it, and I'll probably post it
in the next day or so, but this seems like a non-issue.

    J