2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions

2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 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    : kernel immediately reboots
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/15
Submitter  : Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com>
Status     : unknown


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    : 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    : 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

2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches available (part 2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 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    : 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
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/1/84
Submitter  : Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
             Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Caused-By  : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
             commit 368c73d4f689dae0807d0a2aa74c61fd2b9b075f
Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
             Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/64
Status     : patch available


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
Handled-By : Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Status     : patch available

2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 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    : 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    : 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    : 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    : x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/101
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/9
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     : patches are being discussed

2.6.20-rc3: known regressions with patches (v2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 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    : suspend to disk no longer works
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/1/72
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/31/13
Submitter  : Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
             Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/1/117
Status     : patch 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


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     : patch available


Subject    : bluetooth oopses because of multiple kobject_add()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/101
Submitter  : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Handled-By : Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/147
Status     : patch available


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
Handled-By : Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Status     : patch available

2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v3)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 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    : BUG: scheduling while atomic: hald-addon-stor/...
             cdrom_{open,release,ioctl} in trace
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/105
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/29/22
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/31/133
Submitter  : Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
             Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
             Aaron Sethman <androsyn@ratbox.org>
Status     : unknown


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    : 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    : SPARC64: Can't mount /  (CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y ?)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/181
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/01/04/75
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    : x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/101
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/9
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     : patches are being discussed

2.6.20-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v4)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc3 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    : x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/101
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/9
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     : patches are being discussed


Subject    : BUG: scheduling while atomic: hald-addon-stor/...
             cdrom_{open,release,ioctl} in trace
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/105
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/29/22
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/31/133
Submitter  : Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
             Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
             Aaron Sethman <androsyn@ratbox.org>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : problems with CD burning
References : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg06545.html
Submitter  : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Status     : unknown


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    : 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>
Handled-By : Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


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    : PIE randomization causes random failures of kernel compiles
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/6/124
Submitter  : Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Caused-By  : Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
             commit 59287c0913cc9a6c75712a775f6c1c1ef418ef3b
Handled-By : Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/6/124
Status     : patch was suggested