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2.6.23 regressions

List of Aces http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_stats (a.k.a statistics)

Unclassified

Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Stefan Becker <Stefan.Becker@nokia.com>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

Subject         : x86_64 vdso patch is broken somehow?
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/29/136
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Caused-By       : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
                  commit 2aae950b21e4bc789d1fc6668faf67e8748300b7
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : cpu hotplug support broken in 2.6.23-rc3/highres timers break cpu hotplug in 2.6.23-rc5
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/27/58
                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/3/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc3-git1 crash/stuck on VIA CN700 system
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/20/174
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Stefan Becker <Stefan.Becker@nokia.com>
Caused-By       : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
                  commit 19d36ccdc34f5ed444f8a6af0cbfdb6790eb1177
Handled-By      : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
                  Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Workaround      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/5/221
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : console is messed up after resume from s2ram or switching to console from X
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/6
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
                  Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Workaround      : "s2ram --force --acpi_sleep 1 --vbe_mode"
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : konqueror suddenly vanishing, "konqueror: Fatal IO error: client killed"
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/86
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : Oops while modprobing phy fixed module
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/14/63
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
                  Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/506
Status          : patch available

Subject         : uml on x86_64 compile error
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/3/86
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Caused-By       : Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
                  commit d1254b12c93e1e586137a2ffef71fd33cf273f35
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

CPUFREQ

Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Denis Sadykov <denis.m.sadykov@intel.com>
dth <dth@dth.net>

Subject         : ide problems: 2.6.22-git17 working, 2.6.23-rc1* is not
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/298
                  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/371
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : dth <dth@dth.net>
Caused-By       : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
                  commit f79e3185dd0f8650022518d7624c876d8929061b
Handled-By      : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Status          : problem is being debugged

FS

linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
autofs@linux.kernel.org
Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net

Subject         : umount triggers a warning in jfs and takes almost a minute
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/73
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : [NFSv4] 2.6.23-rc4 oops in nfs4_cb_recall
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/53
                  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9003
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Workaround      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12797
Status          : unknown

Subject         : [NFSD OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1-git10
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/462
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

IDE

linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>

Subject         : linux-2.6.23-rc4 ppc build failure
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/29/154
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Bret Towe <magnade@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/1
Status          : patch was suggested

MMC

Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>
Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Subject         : Unable to access memory card reader anymore
References      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8885
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Patch           : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=12438
Status          : patch available

Networking

netdev@vger.kernel.org
Shish <shish@shishnet.org>
Karl Meyer <adhocrocker@gmail.com>
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Stefano Brivio <st3@riseup.net>
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
Andreas Jaggi <andreas.jaggi@waterwave.ch>
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> 
Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/97
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : zd1211rw regression, device does not enumerate
References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=118854967709322&w=2
                  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8972
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Caused-By       : Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
                  commit 74553aedd46b3a2cae986f909cf2a3f99369decc
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : System freeze when restarting network connection with Broadcom driver
References      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8934
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : patch has been submitted to John Linville

Subject         : NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/13/737
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Karl Meyer <adhocrocker@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : Weird network problems with 2.6.23-rc2
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/11/40
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Shish <shish@shishnet.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Power management

<linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Christian Leber <christian@leber.de>

Subject         : powersaving degradation, (time spend in C0 goes up after a while)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/2/142
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Christian Leber <christian@leber.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : something broke resume from s2ram on mbp c1d (??? :))
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/28/67
Last known good : 2.6.23-rc3
Submitter       : Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc2 swsusp, suddenly increased uptime
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/12/249
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : resume from ram much slower
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/10/275
Last known good : 2.6.23-rc1 ?
Submitter       : Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status          : problem is being debugged

USB

linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: USB hard disk broken
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/62
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : USB hard disk broken in 2.6.23-rc3 (autosuspend related)
References      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8892
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Roman Jarosz <kedgedev@centrum.cz>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Workaround      : echo -1 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-4/power/autosuspend
Status          : possible hardware problem

http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_2622 regressions in 2.6.22 (unmaintained)

http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_2621 regressions in 2.6.21 (unmaintained)

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).