[1/4] 2.6.23-rc6: known regressions

Michal Piotrowski
2007-09-12T17:00:19Z

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc6.

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 10
Linus Torvalds 6
Alan Stern 5
Andi Kleen 5
Hugh Dickins 5
Trond Myklebust 5
Andrew Morton 4
Al Viro 3
Alexey Starikovskiy 3
Cornelia Huck 3
David S. Miller 3
Jens Axboe 3
Stephen Hemminger 3
Tejun Heo 3

Unclassified

Subject : x86_64 vdso patch is broken somehow?
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/29/136
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Caused-By : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
commit 2aae950b21e4bc789d1fc6668faf67e8748300b7
Handled-By : ?
Status : unknown

Subject : cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3/highres timers break cpu hotplug in 2.6.23-rc5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/27/58
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/3/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Caused-By : ?
Handled-By : ?
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : 2.6.23-rc3-git1 crash/stuck on VIA CN700 system
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/20/174
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Stefan Becker <Stefan.Becker@nokia.com>
Caused-By : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
commit 19d36ccdc34f5ed444f8a6af0cbfdb6790eb1177
Handled-By : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Workaround : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/5/221
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Caused-By : ?
Handled-By : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Workaround : "s2ram --force --acpi_sleep 1 --vbe_mode"
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : konqueror suddenly vanishing, "konqueror: Fatal IO error: client killed"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/86
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Caused-By : ?
Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : uml on x86_64 compile error
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/3/86
Last known good : ?
Submitter : Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Caused-By : Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
commit d1254b12c93e1e586137a2ffef71fd33cf273f35
Handled-By : ?
Status : unknown

Regards,
Michal

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