2.6.20-rc2: known regressions with patches available

2.6.20-rc2: known regressions with patches available

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19
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    : selinux networking: sleeping function called from invalid context
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/78
Submitter  : "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Caused-By  : Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Handled-By : Parag Warudkar <paragw@paragw.zapto.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/89
Status     : patch available


Subject    : KVM Oops
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/171
Submitter  : Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Handled-By : Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Status     : patch available


Subject    : drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c compilation broken
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/49
Submitter  : Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Caused-By  : Yu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com>
             commit 519ab5f2be65b72cf12ae99c89752bbe79b44df6
Handled-By : Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/49
Status     : patch available


Subject    : NULL dereference in ieee80211softmac_get_network_by_bssid_locked
             ieee80211softmac_wx.c typo: mutex_lock -> mutex_unlock
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7657
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/141
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/43
Submitter  : Michael Bommarito <mjbommar@umich.edu>
             Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
             Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
Handled-By : Michael Bommarito <mjbommar@umich.edu>
             Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7657
Status     : patches available


Subject    : BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1118 by "pktsetup dvd /dev/sr0"
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7667
Submitter  : Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Caused-By  : Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
             commit 3b00315799d78f76531b71435fbc2643cd71ae4c
Handled-By : Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7667
Status     : patch available

2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19.

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    : PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE breakage
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/12/21
Submitter  : Ben Castricum <mail0612@bencastricum.nl>
Caused-By  : Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
             commit 009af1ff78bfc30b9a27807dd0207fc32848218a
Status     : known to break many drivers; revert?


Subject    : Acer Extensa 3002 WLMi: 'shutdown -h now' reboots the system
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/25/40
Submitter  : Berthold Cogel <cogel@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : i386: Oops in __find_get_block()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/138
Submitter  : Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
             Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/174
Submitter  : Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : forcedeth.c 0.59: problem with sideband managment
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7684
Submitter  : Michael Reske <micha@gmx.com>
Handled-By : Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/101
Submitter  : Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de>
Caused-By  : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
             commit b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
Handled-By : Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
             "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : kernel panics on boot (libata-sff)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/3/99
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/153
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/33
Submitter  : Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Caused-By  : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
             commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f
Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
             Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
             Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Status     : people are working on a fix

2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions (v2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc2 compared to 2.6.19
that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.

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    : USB keyboard unresponsive after some time
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/25/35
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/106
Submitter  : Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : BUG: scheduling while atomic
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/105
Submitter  : Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : ALSA: No sound in KDE with intel hda
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/30/73
Submitter  : Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : SPARC64: Can't mount /
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/181
Submitter  : Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/174
Submitter  : Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com>
Caused-By  : YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
             commit cfb6eeb4c860592edd123fdea908d23c6ad1c7dc
Handled-By : YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : forcedeth.c 0.59: problem with sideband managment
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7684
Submitter  : Michael Reske <micha@gmx.com>
Handled-By : Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/101
Submitter  : Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de>
Caused-By  : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
             commit b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
Handled-By : Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
             Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : kernel panics on boot (libata-sff)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/3/99
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/153
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/24/33
Submitter  : Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Caused-By  : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
             commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f
Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Status     : people are working on a fix


Subject    : Acer Extensa 3002 WLMi: 'shutdown -h now' reboots the system
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/25/40
Submitter  : Berthold Cogel <cogel@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
Status     : submitter was asked for more information

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: known unfixed regressions (v2)

[Ismail Dönmez]

31 Ara 2006 Paz 02:47 tarihinde, Adrian Bunk şunları yazmıştı: 
[...]
> Subject    : ALSA: No sound in KDE with intel hda
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/30/73
> Submitter  : Ismail Dönmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
> Status     : unknown

Just tried with 2.6.18.6 and aRts still have no sound, there must be something 
else broken on my side.

Thanks,
ismail

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