Re: 2.6.19-rc6: known regressions with patches available

Andrew Morton
2006-11-23T01:12:10Z

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:54:57 +0100
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:

> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc6 compared to 2.6.18
> with patches available.
>
> The first issue (for an unknown it never occured before - is seems some
> random Kconfig change has triggered this latent bug) seems to have the
> potential of affecting more users.
>
> The second issue is so exotic that I wouldn't have listed it if there
> was no patch, but considering that the patch looks safe I don't see why
> this regression shouldn't be fixed in 2.6.19.
>
>
> Subject : xconfig crashes on x86_64
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/19/177
> Submitter : Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> Handled-By : Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/20/340
> Status : patch available
>
>
> Subject : menuconfig problems with TERM=vt100
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/13/369
> Submitter : Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
> Caused-By : Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> commit 350b5b76384e77bcc58217f00455fdbec5cac594
> Handled-By : Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/20/341
> Status : patch available

I have both these queued for 2.6.19, thanks.