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Revision 348 as of 2007-06-21 20:01:48
KernelNewbies:
  • known_regressions

Feel free to add new/remove fixed etc.

Will be fixed in 2.6.23

Unclassified

To:
Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
S. P. Prasanna <prasanna@in.ibm.com>

Subject    : CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA prevents kprobes from working on 2.6.22-rc2
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/23/202
Submitter  : William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
             Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Handled-By : S. P. Prasanna <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/2
Status     : patch available

SELinux

Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Subject    : very high non-preempt latency in context_struct_compute_av()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/4/78
Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Handled-By : Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
             James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/334
Status     : patch available
             (This patch is queued for -mm, and will be submitted for 2.6.23.
                                             -- James Morris)

USB

linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Paulo Pereira <pfmp.404@gmail.com>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Subject    : list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug at lib/list_debug.c:33
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8561
Submitter  : Paulo Pereira <pfmp.404@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8561#c8
Status     : patch was suggested
             (Ok, it's queued up for after 2.6.22 is out as it is not a regression and is kind of intrusive.)

2.6.22 regressions

Unclassified

To:
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Rodrigo Luiz <troops.of.doom@gmail.com>
Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
CHIKAMA Masaki <masaki-c@nict.go.jp>
Christian Volkmann <haveaniceday@cv-sv.de>
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>

Subject    : PANIC: CPU too old for this kernel. with Crusoe CPU
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8647
Submitter  : CHIKAMA Masaki <masaki-c@nict.go.jp>
Caused-By  : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
             or Christian Volkmann <haveaniceday@cv-sv.de>
             one of those commits:
             commit 4c1f59d8be7e5da75d9380da23671005b363c45c
             commit 39427d6e595ebee38fdd77bcf55d6b13d7a4324a
             commit fd0581bbb40d8f4b0e4b3a4de2258a50df37bb57
             commit c7f81c9453375d6416658995eafd3397cb9bba1d
             commit 3671df8572a299acff9c9cac2bf7279ee614d154
Status     : unknown

Subject    : Kernel hang on CMOS_READ
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/3/138
Submitter  : Rodrigo Luiz <troops.of.doom@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : Device hang when offlining a CPU due to IRQ misrouting
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/31/419
Submitter  : Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Handled-By : Siddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/19/422
Status     : patch available

Subject    : OProfile issues
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/207
Submitter  : Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Handled-By : Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/392
Status     : patch was suggested

ALSA

To:
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>

Subject    : snd-aoa causes badness in lib/kref.c:33
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8513
Submitter  : Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Handled-By : Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Status     : Unknown

FBDEV

Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>

Subject    : mach64 breakage in 2.6.22
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/73
Submitter  : Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Handled-By : Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/273
Status     : patch was suggested

FS

reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc4-git5 reiserfs: null ptr deref.
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/322
Submitter  : Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Handled-By : Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged

HWMON

lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>

Subject    : latest coretemp changes break s2ram
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/16/173
Submitter  : Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Caused-By  : Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
             commit 67f363b1f6a31cf5027a97372f64bcced4f05ba6
Handled-By : Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/16/177
Status     : patch available

Memory management

Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>

Subject    : bug in i386 MTRR initialization
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
Submitter  : Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>
Status     : patch available

MMC

Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>

Subject    : Oops in a driver while using SLUB as a SLAB allocator
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/21/69
Submitter  : Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Handled-By : Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/21/140
Status     : patch available

Networking

To:
netdev@vger.kernel.org
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
developers@islsm.org
Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Chad Tindel <ctindel@users.sourceforge.net>
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>

Subject    : ERROR: "__ucmpdi2" [drivers/net/s2io.ko] undefined!
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/19/310
Submitter  : Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/19/382
Status     : patch was suggested

Subject    : no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/3/16
Submitter  : Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Handled-By : Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
             Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/237
Status     : patch was suggested

SATA/PATA

<linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Rodney Gordon II <meff@spherevision.org>

Subject    : libata IT821X driver still fails! Hard-freezes system
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/82
Submitter  : Rodney Gordon II <meff@spherevision.org>
Status     : unknown

Sparc64

To:
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>

Subject    : random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/111
Submitter  : Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : 2.6.22-rc broke X on Ultra5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/22/78
Submitter  : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Suspend

To:
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

x86-64

To:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
discuss@x86-64.org
Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>

Subject    : x86-64 2.6.22-rc2 random segfaults
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/275
Submitter  : Ioan Ionita <opslynx@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

New regressions (submitted after 2.6.21 a.k.a. for -stable team)

Part 4

stable@kernel.org
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Joshua Charles Campbell <wz@wza.us>
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Stanislav Mayantsev <mastan@mail.ru>
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Derek Dolney <nospam@dolney.com>
Michael H. Schimek <mschimek@gmx.at>
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Matthias Bläsing <matthias.blaesing@rwth-aachen.de>
Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>

Subject    : BAT0 no longer seen, ACPI errors
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8493
Submitter  : Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Workaround : BIOS upgrade
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : acpi hangs on boot
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8504
Submitter  : Matthias Bläsing <matthias.blaesing@rwth-aachen.de>
Status     : Unknown
Subject    : NAT prerouting over tun interface broken
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8519
Submitter  : Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Handled-By : Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : pata-amd fails to start Iomega Zip drive
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8497
Submitter  : Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown
Subject    : kernel BUG at drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-vbi.c:261
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8481
Submitter  : Derek Dolney <nospam@dolney.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : Bus #0a (-#0d) is hidden behind transparent bridge #09 (-#09)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8480
Submitter  : Stanislav Mayantsev <mastan@mail.ru>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : Negative internal write-intent bitmap offset with metadata 1.0 in raid 10: kernel writes same superblock to all drives
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8478
Submitter  : Joshua Charles Campbell <wz@wza.us>
Handled-By : Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=11503&action=view
Status     : patch available

Part 3

To:
stable@kernel.org
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@gmail.com>
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Chris Bergeron <chris@pcburn.com>
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
bluez-devel@lists.sf.net
Anant Nitya <kernel@prachanda.info>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Croulder Croulder <croulder@gmail.com>
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Rainer Malitzke-Goes <malitzke@metronets.com>
Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com>
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thomas Kuther <gimpel@sonnenkinder.org>
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Denis V. Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

Subject    : NFSv3 client OOPS during LTP test
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/126
Submitter  : Denis V. Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : IT821x: no DMA since 2.6.21
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/107
Submitter  : Thomas Kuther <gimpel@sonnenkinder.org>
Status     : Unknown
Subject    : OOPS in timer stats code
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/109
Submitter  : Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/214
Submitter  : Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Handled-By : Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/152
Status     : patch available

Subject    : ACPI Power Down is broken in 2.6.21.1
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/8/281
Submitter  : Vladimir Pouzanov <farcaller@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown
Subject    : Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1 - oops in aacraid
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8469
Submitter  : Rainer Malitzke-Goes <malitzke@metronets.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : BUG: NULL pointer dereference , reference to sys_recvmsg
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/331
Submitter  : Croulder Croulder <croulder@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
             David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : 2.6.21 broke arm scsi on qemu -M volatilepb
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/670
Submitter  : Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : NOHZ: local_softirq_pending, soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/230
Submitter  : Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : local_softirq_pending storm
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/9/261
Submitter  : Anant Nitya <kernel@prachanda.info>
Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Workaround : http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2007/5/9/312/1
Status     : problem is being debugged
Subject    : make net/built-in.o Error with HIDP protocol support set to built-in
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/7/352
Submitter  : Chris Bergeron <chris@pcburn.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : oops EIP is at uart_console_write
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/7/273
Submitter  : Teck Choon Giam <giamteckchoon@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

Part 2

To:
stable@kernel.org
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Daniele Venzano <venza@brownhat.org>
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
Rafał Bilski <rafalbilski@interia.pl>
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Pallai Roland <dap@mail.index.hu>
Croulder Croulder <croulder@gmail.com>
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz

Subject    : [2.6.21] kernel panic HID/USB
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/6/50
Submitter  : Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Handled-By : Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/6/159
Status     : patch was suggested

Subject    : BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/sock.c:1523
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/6/56
Submitter  : Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:596
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/277
Submitter  : Croulder Croulder <croulder@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown
Subject    : soft lockup on XFS write (by nfsd)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8414
Submitter  : Pallai Roland <dap@mail.index.hu>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : 2.6.21: longhaul freq-scaling broken
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/1/260
Submitter  : Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Patch      : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=07844252ffd81ec192a62014bada1016c9703765
Status     : patch available
Subject    : libata /dev/scd0 problem: mount after burn fails without eject
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/1/256
Submitter  : Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : Kernel hang at "kernel: switched to high resolution mode on cpu 0" when
             either/both of CONFIG_NO_HZ, CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is used
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/30/464
Submitter  : Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Handled-By : Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
             Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/13/190
Status     : patch was suggested

Subject    : ACPI related kernel panic
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/30/193
             http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8385
Submitter  : Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
Patches    : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=11331&action=view
             http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=11332&action=view
Status     : patches was suggested

Subject    : 2.6.21 frozen for a few minutes, swapping to disk
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/29/107
Submitter  : Miguel Figueiredo <elmig@debianpt.org>
Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
             Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : possible circular locking dependency detected in ext3
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/27/215
Submitter  : Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Status     : Unknow

Part 1

To:
stable@kernel.org
Linux Kernel Mailing List < linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Riccardo Ricci < rricci@nuovanetmore.it >,
Udo A. Steinberg < us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de >,
Len Brown < len.brown@intel.com >,
Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>,
Francois SIMOND <curio@free.fr>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@skynet.be>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
David Cary Hart <davidhart@tqmcube.com>

Subject    : Hard Lock Subsequent to Boot
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8392
Submitter  : David Cary Hart <davidhart@tqmcube.com>

Status     : Fixed in -git4
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    : 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>
Patch      : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=88db5e1489f23876a226f5393fd978ddc09dc5f9
Status     : Fixed in mainline

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 : Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
             Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/29/30
Status     : patch available

Distro-tracked regressions

Gentoo

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This list is kept relatively up-to-date. Gentoo kernels are only lightly patched, and the majority of bugs have been reproduced on unpatched kernels and reported upstream. Gentoo only track release kernels, not -rc releases (it's nice to see the scope of Adrian's previous work increased).

Regressions from an old list of Adrian's

Part 1

To:
Linux Kernel Mailing List < linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >,
Andi Kleen < ak@suse.de >,
Oliver Neukum < oneukum@suse.de >,
greg@kroah.com ,
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
CIJOML <cijoml@volny . cz>,
Markus Rechberger < markus.rechberger@amd.com >,
v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
Hans-Georg Rist < hg.rist@web.de >,
perex@suse.cz,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
Michal Piotrowski < michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com >,
Takashi Iwai < tiwai@suse.de >

Subject    : hal daemon crashes after pulling a USB serial device
References : http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/6369800.html
Submitter  : Andi Kleen < ak@suse.de >
Handled-By : Oliver Neukum < oneukum@suse.de >
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : Oops when changing USB DVB-T adapter
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/9/212
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/5/154
Submitter  : CIJOML < cijoml@volny . cz >
Handled-By : Markus Rechberger < markus.rechberger@amd.com >
Status     : patches available

Subject    : snd_hda_intel doesn't work with ASUS M2V mainboard
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8273
Submitter  : Hans-Georg Rist < hg.rist@web.de >
Status     : unknown

Subject    : snd_intel8x0: divide error: 0000
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/5/252
Submitter  : Michal Piotrowski < michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com >
Handled-By : Takashi Iwai < tiwai@suse.de >
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/20/117
Status     : patch available

Part 2

To:
Linux Kernel Mailing List < linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >,
lenb@kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Michal Jaegermann < michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca >,
jgarzik@pobox.com ,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org ,
Stephen Clark < Stephen.Clark@seclark.us >,
David Miller < davem@davemloft.net >,
Robert Peterson < rpeterso@redhat.com >,
linux-driver@qlogic.com,
James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

Subject    : kernels fail to boot with drives on ATIIXP controller (ACPI/IRQ related)
References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229621
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/257
Submitter  : Michal Jaegermann < michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca >
Status     : unknown

Subject    : ali_pata: boot from CD fails
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160
Submitter  : Stephen Clark < Stephen.Clark@seclark.us >
Status     : unknown

Subject    : qla2xxx driver no longer works
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/16/49
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/20/224
Submitter  : David Miller < davem@davemloft.net >
             Robert Peterson < rpeterso@redhat.com >
Handled-By : David Miller < davem@davemloft.net >
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/16/234
Status     : patch was suggested

Part 3

To:
Linux Kernel Mailing List < linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >,
Guilherme Schroeder < guilherme@centralinf.com.br >,
Thomas Gleixner < tglx@linutronix.de >,
John Stultz < johnstul@us.ibm.com >,
Ingo Molnar < mingo@elte.hu >,
Mikael Pettersson < mikpe@it.uu.se >,
ak@suse.de,
discuss@x86-64.org,
Jeff Chua < jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com >,
pavel@suse.cz,
linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Rafael J. Wysocki < rjw@sisk.pl >,
Tobias Diedrich < ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de >,
Dmitry Torokhov < dtor@insightbb.com >

Subject: HPET enabled freeze my machine at boot workaround: clocksource=acpi_pm
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/19/370
Submitter  : Guilherme Schroeder < guilherme@centralinf.com.br >
Caused-By  : Thomas Gleixner < tglx@linutronix.de >
             commit 5d8b34fdcb384161552d01ee8f34af5ff11f9684
Handled-By : John Stultz < johnstul@us.ibm.com >
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : acpi_pm clocksource loses time on x86-64
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/17/143
Submitter  : Mikael Pettersson < mikpe@it.uu.se >
Handled-By : John Stultz < johnstul@us.ibm.com >
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : suspend to disk hangs  (CONFIG_NO_HZ)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/25/217
Submitter  : Jeff Chua < jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com >
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=11379&action=view
Status     : patch was suggested

Subject    : suspend to disk works only once
workaround: "echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/13/240
Submitter  : Tobias Diedrich < ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de >
Caused-By  : Rafael J. Wysocki < rjw@sisk.pl >
             commit ed746e3b18f4df18afa3763155972c5835f284c5
Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki < rjw@sisk.pl >
             Dmitry Torokhov < dtor@insightbb.com >
Status     : problem is being debugged
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