Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 28 April 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Here is a list of known regressions reported after 2.6.21 release.
>
>Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
>http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
>
I went here, but without a login the page is immutable

Therefore I'll add it here

Subject		:proprietary belkin upsd turns into cpu hog
Submitter	:gene.heskett@gmail.com
Reference	:something changed in how /dev/ttyUSB's handle 1 and 2 byte messages 
from pl2303 usb<->serial adaptors.  Also, assignation of ttyUSB#'s is 
volatile depending on phase of the moon when booted.

>
>Subject    : kernel crash at boot with maxcpus=1 on quad core
>             kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:1023
>References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/460
>Submitter  : Brandeburg, Jesse <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
>Status     : Unknow
>
>Subject    : Soft lockup on CPU0 when resuming from suspension to ram,
> related to acpi processor module References :
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8391
>Submitter  : Giorgio Lando <patroclo7@gmail.com>
>Status     : Unknow
>
>Subject    : Bad interaction between dynticks and amarok?
>References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/26/307
>Submitter  : Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey@web.de>
>Status     : Unknow
>
>Subject    : Long pause initializating usb-storage
>References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8380
>Submitter  : Vincent Frentzel <zcecc22@ucl.ac.uk>
>Status     : Unknow
>
>Subject    : Multpiple problem when thermal is loaded with kernel 2.6.21
>References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8385
>Submitter  : François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@skynet.be>
>Status     : Unknow
>
>Subject    : 2.6.21: sky2 "hw csum failure" problem
>References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/28/105
>Submitter  : Håkan Lindqvist <lindqvist@netstar.se>
>Status     : unknown
>
>Subject    : sky2 regression in 2.6.21: Asus P5B-E Plus ethernet adapter no
> more supported References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/26/599
>Submitter  : Francois SIMOND <curio@free.fr>
>Handled-By : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
>Status     : unknown
>
>Subject    : 2.6.21 - BUG: at arch/i386/kernel/smp.c:177
> send_IPI_mask_bitmask() References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/621
>Submitter  : Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
>Status     : unknown
>
>Subject    : 2.6.21 don't boot, it stops after ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link
> [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15). References :
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/400
>Submitter  : Riccardo Ricci < rricci@nuovanetmore.it >
>Handled-By : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
>Status     : unknown
>
>Subject    : ACPI interpreter errors
>References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/206
>Submitter  : Udo A. Steinberg < us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de >
>Handled-By : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
>Status     : unknown
>
>Subject    : reiserfs -- circular locking
>References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/26/648
>Submitter  : David Brownell < david-b@pacbell.net >
>Handled-By : Jeff Mahoney < jeffm@suse.com >
>Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/332
>Status     : patch available
>
>Regards,
>Michal



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