2.6.19-rc4: known regressions with patches

Adrian Bunk
2006-10-31T20:08:56Z

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc4 compared to 2.6.18
with patches available.

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 : s390: DCSS support breakage
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/89
Submitter : Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Caused-By : Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
commit 7676bef9c183fd573822cac9992927ef596d584c
Handled-By : Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/89
Status : patch to revert the commit available

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 : Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/14/157
Status : patch available

Subject : swsusp initialized after SATA (CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/14/31
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Handled-By : Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Status : CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE will be disabled in 2.6.19

Subject : MSI errors during boot (CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/291
Submitter : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Handled-By : Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Status : CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE will be disabled in 2.6.19