This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released, for which there are no fixes in the mainline I know of. If any of them have been fixed already, please let me know. If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know either and I'll add them to the list. Also, please let me know if any of the entries below are invalid. Listed regressions statistics: Date Total Pending Unresolved ---------------------------------------- Today 157 25 12 2008-01-12 150 28 14 2008-01-05 139 28 15 2008-01-01 139 38 23 2007-12-21 118 21 13 2007-12-18 115 29 15 2007-12-12 106 31 17 2007-12-08 98 29 19 2007-12-01 85 29 18 2007-11-24 75 25 21 2007-11-19 68 26 21 2007-11-17 65 25 20 Unresolved regressions ---------------------- Subject : EHCI causes system to resume instantly from S4 Submitter : Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Date : 2007-10-28 14:56 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/66 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9258 Handled-By : "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Workaround : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9258#c30 Subject : SError: { DevExch } occuring and causing disruption Submitter : Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com> Date : 2007-11-15 22:39 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9393 Handled-By : Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Subject : BUG: bad unlock balance detected! Submitter : Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> Date : 2007-12-11 03:17 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9542 Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Subject : swapping in 2.6.24-rc5-git3 Submitter : Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz> Date : 2007-12-17 14:04 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/17/98 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9592 Handled-By : Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Subject : Problems on booting Submitter : "werner" <werner@copaya.yi.org> Date : 2007-12-22 14:29 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/22/110 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9621 Subject : ACPI or radeon: spontaneous reboot regression Submitter : Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Date : 2007-12-22 16:09 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/22/139 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9624 Handled-By : Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Subject : lockdep warning with LTP dio test (v2.6.24-rc6-125-g5356f66) Submitter : Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Date : 2007-12-24 18:02 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/24/107 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9670 Subject : kexec buffer error Submitter : Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Date : 2008-01-04 22:54 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/4/255 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9693 Subject : 2.6.24-rc7 -- WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2662 check_flags() Submitter : "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com> Date : 2008-01-07 04:34 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/6/313 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9737 Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Subject : [BUG] 2.6.24-rc5: 'sysctl table check failed' when turning on printer Submitter : Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Date : 2007-12-16 21:19 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/16/121 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/6/228 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9749 Handled-By : "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Subject : crash in kmem_cache_init Submitter : Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Date : 2008-01-15 16:09 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/180 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9755 Handled-By : Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Subject : sky2 patch in 2.6.24-rc7-git6 breaks POST - commit 84cd2dfb04d23a961c5f537baa243fa54d0987ac Submitter : "Ioan Ionita" <opslynx@gmail.com> Date : 2008-01-15 12:01 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/98 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9756 Handled-By : Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com> Regressionn with patches ------------------------ Subject : [2.6.24-rc6] pdflush still stuck in D state regression Submitter : "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko@ursulin.net> Date : 2007-11-02 09:54 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9291 Handled-By : Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14219&action=view Subject : snd_hda_intel 2.6.24-rc2 bug: interrupts don't always work on Lenovo X60s Submitter : Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Date : 2007-11-08 14:55 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332 Handled-By : Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66 Subject : jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3 Submitter : Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Date : 2007-11-29 08:36 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/24/53 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475 Handled-By : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/132 Subject : 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails Submitter : Mike Houston <mikeserv@bmts.com> Date : 2007-12-06 17:10 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/466 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9514 Handled-By : Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14267&action=view Subject : RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv6/addrconf.c (2164)/RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1055) Submitter : Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> Date : 2007-12-11 03:20 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9543 Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9543#c6 Subject : PATA_HPT37X embezzles two ports Submitter : "Bjoern Olausson" <lkmlist@gmail.com> Date : 2007-12-12 11:05 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/12/161 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9551 Handled-By : Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/161 Subject : wake on lan fails with sky2 module Submitter : cpo <supersud501@yahoo.de> Date : 2008-01-09 13:05 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 http://marc.info/?t=119992349300001&r=1&w=4 Handled-By : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14455&action=view Subject : psmouse.c: GlidePoint at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1 Submitter : "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Date : 2007-11-14 21:26 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/14/363 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9727 Handled-By : Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/151 Subject : regression: sysctl_check changes in 2.6.24 are O(n) resulting in slow creation of 10000 network interfaces Submitter : Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Date : 2008-01-06 23:03 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/6/248 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9736 Handled-By : "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/60 Subject : Oops on boot from laptop mode writing to /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling Submitter : Simon Huggins <huggie@earth.li> Date : 2008-01-14 11:19 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9747 Handled-By : Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14456&action=view Subject : fs/hfs/btree.c: new NULL dereference Submitter : Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Date : 2008-01-14 13:17 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9748 Handled-By : Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/14/365 Subject : [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang Submitter : Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Date : 2008-01-15 06:25 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/15/4 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9757 Handled-By : David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/16/2 Subject : radeonfb and Xpress 200m 5955 Submitter : Alex <alevkovich@tut.by> Date : 2008-01-16 01:33 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9762 Handled-By : Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14481&action=view For details, please follow the links given in references. As you can see, there is a Bugzilla entry for each of the listed regressions. There also is a Bugzilla entry used for tracking the regressions from 2.6.23, unresolved as well as resolved, at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9243 Please let me know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to the list in there. Thanks, Rafael --
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