[2/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

Adrian Bunk
2007-03-23T18:48:31Z

This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20.

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 : kernels fail to boot with drives on ATIIXP controller
(ACPI/IRQ related)
References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229621
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/257
Submitter : Michal Jaegermann <michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>
Status : unknown

Subject : x86_64: ACPI regression with noapic (APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3?)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/8/468
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/156
Submitter : Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : NCQ problem with ahci and Hitachi drive (ACPI related)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/475
Submitter : Mathieu Bérard <Mathieu.Berard@crans.org>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : libata: PATA UDMA/100 configured as UDMA/33
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/20/294
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg04115.html
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8133
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8164
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/21/330
Submitter : Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@gmail.com>
Plamen Petrov <plamen.petrov@tk.ru.acad.bg>
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@mail.muni.cz>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Status : Alan: Some cases should be fixed now but probably not all
(eg the Nvidia one)