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2.6.22 regressions

Unclassified

To:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>

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>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : build failed in function `vic_sys_interrupt'
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/31/227
Submitter  : Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : long freezes on thinkpad t60
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/100
Submitter  : Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Status     : problem is being debugged

ACPI

To:
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Thierry Volpiatto <tvolpiatt@neuf.fr>

Subject    : unable to shutdown on kernel 2.6.22-rc2
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8516
Submitter  : Thierry Volpiatto <tvolpiatt@neuf.fr>
Status     : Unknown

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>
Status     : Unknown

Block devices

To:
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>

Subject    : loop devices limited to one single device
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/229
Submitter  : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Handled-By : Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/21/483
Status     : patch available

File systems

To:
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
jffs-dev@axis.com
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>

Subject    : OOPS (NULL pointer dereference) in v2.6.22-rc3
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/1/389
Submitter  : Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : JFFS2 issues
References : http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-May/018426.html
Submitter  : Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Caused-By  : commit 10731f83009e2556f98ffa5c7c2cbffe66dacfb3
             Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Handled-By : Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Patch      : http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-May/018453.html
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

Networking

To:
netdev@vger.kernel.org
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
developers@islsm.org
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>
Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>

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>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : b44: regression in 2.6.22
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/27/108
Submitter  : Maximilian Engelhardt <maxi@daemonizer.de>
Handled-By : Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
             Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Status     : problem is being debugged

PCI

To:
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Mike Miller (OS Dev) <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Tom Long Nguyen (tom.l.nguyen@intel.com)

Subject    : Oops on 2.6.22-rc2 when unloading the cciss driver
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/172
Submitter  : Mike Miller (OS Dev) <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/31/387
Status     : patch available

PCMCIA

To:
linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

Subject    : libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/305
Submitter  : Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

SATA/PATA

To:
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Francis Russell <francisrussell@btopenworld.com>
Robert de Rooy <robert.de.rooy@gmail.com>
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>

Subject    : 2.6.22 libata spindown
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/1/306
Submitter  : Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@gmail.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : 22-rc3 broke the CDROM in Dell notebook
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/27/63
Submitter  : Gregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Caused-By  : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
             commit d4b2bab4f26345ea1803feb23ea92fbe3f6b77bc
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : pata_via appears to incorrectly detects 40-pin cable
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/273
Submitter  : Francis Russell <francisrussell@btopenworld.com>
Status     : Not really a regression. Alan seems to have a general fix.
             (Tejun Heo)

Subject    : libata reset-seq merge broke sata_sil on sh
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/63
Submitter  : Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Caused-By  : commit 4750def52cb2c21732dda9aa1d43a07db37b0186
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/161
Status     : patch available

SCSI

To:
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
aacraid@adaptec.com
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

Subject    : aacraid: adapter kernel panic'd fffffffd (kexec)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/29/491
Submitter  : Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com>
             Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Patch      : aacraid-fix-shutdown-handler-to-also-disable-interrupts.patch (in -mm tree)
Status     : patch available

Sparc64

To:
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>

Subject    : arch/sparc64/time.c doesn't compile on Ultra 1 (no PCI)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8540
Submitter  : Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Status     : patch available

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>
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Simon <sg02r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Subject    : hibernate(?) fails totally - regression
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/1/401
Submitter  : David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status     : problem is being debugged

Subject    : panic on s3 resume with uhci_hcd module
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8565
Submitter  : Simon <sg02r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Handled-By : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status     : Unknown

USB

linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
art@usfltd.com <art@usfltd.com>
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Subject    : Unable to get HID descriptor (error sending control message: Operation not permitted)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/2/153
Submitter  : Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Status     : Unknown

Subject    : usb hotplug/udev cannot correctly register usb/scanners
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/205
Submitter  : art@usfltd.com <art@usfltd.com>
Status     : Unknown

x86-64

To:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
discuss@x86-64.org
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
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

Subject    : BUG: at mm/slab.c:777 __find_general_cachep()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/17
Submitter  : Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Handled-By : Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/19
Status     : patch available

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

KernelNewbies: known_regressions (last edited 2007-06-03 08:46:29 by unregister003160097217)