Nothing really exciting in the last week or two; we're fixing all the frequent bugs,
or the bugs are in out of tree drivers / various git trees.
For the 2.6.25 development cycle, an overview of the sightings can be seen at:
http://www.kerneloops.org/twentyfive.html
The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and
warning reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas as well as
with a client users can install to auto-submit oopses.
Below is a top 10 list of the oopses collected in the last 7 days.
(Reports prior to 2.6.23 have been omitted in collecting the top 10)
This week, a total of 647 oopses and warnings have been reported,
compared to 719 reports in the previous week.
Rank 1: __register_sysctl_paths
Reported 74 times (372 total reports)
Duplicate /proc registration. Most bugs are in madwifi but also in the parport driver
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.25, and first seen in 2.6.25-rc3.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=__register_sysctl_paths
Rank 2: set_dentry_child_flags [fixed]
Reported 64 times (665 total reports)
Bug in the 2.6.24 inotify code that got exposed by KDE4 and got fixed in 2.6.25
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.24.4, and first seen in 2.6.24-rc8-git4.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=set_dentry_child_flags
Rank 3: mark_buffer_dirty
Reported 43 times (144 total reports)
EXT3 bug while hot-removing a USB device
This warning was last seen in version 2.6.25, and first seen in 2.6.24-rc6.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mark_buffer_dirty
Rank 4: input_release_device [fixed]
Reported 40 times (718 total reports)
sysfs refcounting cleanup exposed input layer issues; fixed in 2.6.25-rc9
This oops was last seen in version 2.6.25-rc7-git4, and first seen in 2.6.25-rc2.
More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=input_release_device
Rank 5: sysfs_add_one
Reported 39 times (171 total ...
