Feel free to add new/remove fixed etc.

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>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Markus <lists4me@web.de>
Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>

Subject         : /usr/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff7007e3] overlaps section .gnu.version_d [ffffffffff7004d8 -> ffffffffff70050f]
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/239
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Status          : problem is being debugged

Subject         : pcwd_init_module(): WARNING: at lib/kref.c:33 kref_get()
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/94
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
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         : 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

ACPI

acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Karol Kozimor <sziwan@users.sourceforge.net>
Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>

Subject         : drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c:*: error: 'struct led_classdev' has no member named 'class_dev'
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/299
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

FS

linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org>
Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>

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      : Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch1          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/255
Patch2          : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/272
Status          : patch available

Media

v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org
Thierry MERLE <thierry.merle@free.fr>
Dwaine P. Garden <dwainegarden@rogers.com>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Subject         : usbvision: don't return an uninitialized value
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/23/65
Status          : patch available

Networking

netdev@vger.kernel.org
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

Subject         : New wake ups from sky2
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/386
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Caused-By       : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
                  commit eb35cf60e462491249166182e3e755d3d5d91a28
Handled-By      : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Status          : unknown

SCSI

linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Subject         : lpfc_sli.c: off-by-10
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/284
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Virtualization

Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>

Subject         : 2.6.22-git17 boot failure (XEN)
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/266
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : drivers/net/xen-netfront.c: bogus code
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/256
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Status          : unknown

IA64

linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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

Sparc64

sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

Subject         : "build-id" changes break sparc64
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/22/38
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Caused-By       : Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
                  commit 18991197b4b588255ccabf472ebc84db7b66a19c
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

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).