2.6.22-git: known regressions with patches

2.6.22-git: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-git
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                            3
Andi Kleen                             2
Andrew Morton                          2
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Jens Axboe                             2


Unclassified

Subject         : disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/17/467
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
                  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
                  Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/26
Status          : patch available

Subject         : Kconfig prompts without help text
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/326
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/236
Status          : patch available



Block layer

Subject         : bsg.c:(.init.text+0x43d): undefined reference to `scsi_register_interface'
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/343
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/380
Status          : patch available



FS

Subject         : AFS compile broken
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/218
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/223
Status          : patch available



Networking

Subject         : net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c:100?: warning: implicit declaration of function '*_kernel'
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/78
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/95
Status          : patch available



Regards,
Michal

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Re: 2.6.22-git: known regressions with patches

[S.Çağlar Onur]

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Hi Michal;

19 Tem 2007 Per tarihinde, Michal Piotrowski şunları yazmıştı: 
> Block layer
>
> Subject         : bsg.c:(.init.text+0x43d): undefined reference to
> `scsi_register_interface' References      :
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/343
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/16/380
> Status          : patch available

After a off-list discussion this was solved with Linus's commit [1], so please 
drop that one

[1] 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=29417b899a77aaba1c060f5e123db4f50006f58a

Cheers
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Re: 2.6.22-git: known regressions with patches

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

Hi,

On Thursday 19 July 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:

> Unclassified
> 
> Subject         : disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/17/467
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
>                   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>                   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/26
> Status          : patch available

Additional patch is an improvement but the regression itself has already
been fixed in the mainline (by reverting problematic changes).

Thanks,
Bart

Re: 2.6.22-git: known regressions with patches

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:35:04 +0200,
Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> FS
> 
> Subject         : AFS compile broken
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/218
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
> Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/223
> Status          : patch available
> 

Multiple people posted this fix, and Andrew's already made it to git
(commit 275afcac9953ece0828972edeab9684cfe1a5ef3).