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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

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>
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@gmail.com>
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>

Subject         : kobject link failure
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/495
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
                  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/143
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

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       : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
                  commit 3007e997de91ec59af39a3f9c91595b31ae6e08b
Handled-By      : Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
                  Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
                  Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/506
Status          : patch available

FS

linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>

Subject         : ia64 build failure from recent diskquota patch
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/18/407
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Caused-By       : Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
                  commit b716395e2b8e450e294537de0c91476ded2f0395
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

IA64

Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

Subject         : Regression in serial console on ia64 after 2.6.22
References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-ia64&m=118483645914066&w=2
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Caused-By       : Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
                  commit 18a8bd949d6adb311ea816125ff65050df1f3f6e
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Networking

<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

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

PATA/SATA

<linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
TAKADA Yoshihito <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
teheo@novell.com
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com>
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Subject         : pata_cs5520 does not work
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/15/142
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : TAKADA Yoshihito <takada@mbf.nifty.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : pata_platform NULL pointer dereference
References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=118466369821894&w=2
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Caused-By       : Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@gmail.com>
                  commit 5f45bc50976ee1f408f7171af155aec646655a37
Handled-By      : Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Status          : patch available

http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions_2622 regressions in 2.6.22

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

Distro-tracked regressions

Gentoo

[http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=anywordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=UPSTREAM&resolution=---&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&query_based_on=Kernel+regressions&field0-0-0=status_whiteboard&type0-0-0=regexp&value0-0-0=linux-2\.6\..*-regression Click here]

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).