Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v2

Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v2

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1
with patches available.

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
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2



Media

Subject         : usbvision: don't return an uninitialized value
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Status          : patch available



Memory management

Subject         : [bug] SLUB & freeing locks
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/90
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/97
Status          : patch available



Power Management

Subject         : ACPI-related oops on x86_64
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/111
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/300
Status          : patch available

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1 broke APM
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/169
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/489
Status          : patch available



SYSFS

Subject         : sysfs/udev broken in 2.6.23-rc1
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/276
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
                  Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/83
Status          : patch available



USB

Subject         : BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/usb/core/urb.c:524,in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/400
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/203
Status          : patch available



Regards,
Michal

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Re: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions with patches v2

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:53:30PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc1
> with patches available.
> 
> Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
>...
> Media
> 
> Subject         : usbvision: don't return an uninitialized value
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
> Status          : patch available
>...

There's a better patch available, updated entry:

Subject         : usbvision: don't return an uninitialized value
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : Thierry MERLE <thierry.merle@free.fr>
                  commit c5f48367fe54c46805774eeea8e828de54a5ad7b
Handled-By      : Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/114
Status          : patch available


> Regards,
> Michal

cu
Adrian

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