The task of tracking regressions between kernel releases [story] has been picked up by Michal Piotrowski who maintains a "known regressions" wiki page at Kernel Newbies. The list is divided into sections and mailed out to the lkml after each release candidate.
From: Michal Piotrowski [email blocked] Subject: [1/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:05:47 +0200 Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Unclassified Subject : 2.6.22-rc2 prepatch breaks compile on Dreamcast References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/75 Submitter : Adrian McMenamin [email blocked] Status : Unknown ACPI Subject : acpi hangs on boot References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8504 Submitter : Matthias Bläsing [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : BAT0 no longer seen, ACPI errors References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8493 Submitter : Ben Collins [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : cannot change thermal trip points References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/139 Submitter : Maciej Rutecki [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : nx6125 has lost fan control References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/249 Submitter : Ray Lee [email blocked] Status : Unknown Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski Kernel Monkeys (http://kernel.wikidot.com/start)
From: Michal Piotrowski [email blocked] Subject: Re: [2/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:05:56 +0200 Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Block devices Subject : loop devices limited to one single device References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/229 Submitter : Uwe Bugla [email blocked] Status : Unknown File systems Subject : File on XFS is truncated at reboot with 2.6.22-rc1 References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8503 Submitter : Maurice van der Pot [email blocked] Status : Unknown Memory management Subject : SLAB doesn't like usb_get_configuration() References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/96 Submitter : Indan Zupancic [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : BUG: at mm/slab.c:777 __find_general_cachep() References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/17 Submitter : Jeff Garzik [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : kernel BUG at include/linux/slub_def.h:88 kmalloc_index() References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8476 Submitter : Cherwin R. Nooitmeer [email blocked] Status : Unknown Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski Kernel Monkeys (http://kernel.wikidot.com/start)
From: Michal Piotrowski [email blocked] Subject: Re: [3/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:06:13 +0200 Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions SATA/PATA Subject : libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/305 Submitter : Robert de Rooy [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : pata_via appears to incorrectly detects 40-pin cable References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/273 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8142 Submitter : Francis Russell [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : libata crash on halt References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=117899827710565&w=2 Submitter : Andrew Morton [email blocked] Caused-By : Tejun Heo [email blocked] commit 920a4b1038e442700a1cfac77ea7e20bd615a2c3 Status : problem is being debugged Subject : libata reset-seq merge broke sata_sil on sh References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/10/63 Submitter : Paul Mundt [email blocked] Handled-By : Tejun Heo [email blocked] Caused-By : commit 4750def52cb2c21732dda9aa1d43a07db37b0186 Status : problem is being debugged V4L Subject : V4L ABI breakage References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/42 Submitter : Robert Fitzsimons [email blocked] Caused-By : Hans Verkuil [email blocked] Mauro Carvalho Chehab [email blocked] commit 206ebaf32795cf1582b1e2ff2ec6a560c9e986b8 Status : Unknown Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski Kernel Monkeys (http://kernel.wikidot.com/start)
From: Michal Piotrowski [email blocked] Subject: Re: [4/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:06:23 +0200 Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Suspend Subject : STD fails with pci_device_suspend(): usb_hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x160 [usbcore]() returns -16 References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/66 Submitter : Andrey Borzenkov [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : 2.6.22-rc1 suspend to RAM problem References : http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/5819 Submitter : Marcus Better [email blocked] Status : caused by fw-ohci module Timers/NOHZ Subject : 2.6.21-git4 BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/2/511 Submitter : Michal Piotrowski [email blocked] Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner [email blocked] Status : problem is being debugged USB Subject : usb hotplug/udev cannot correctly register usb/scanners References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/15/205 Submitter : [email blocked] [email blocked] Status : Unknown Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski Kernel Monkeys (http://kernel.wikidot.com/start)
From: Michal Piotrowski [email blocked] Subject: Re: [5/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 00:06:33 +0200 Hi all, Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2. Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc. http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions Networking Subject : OOPS triggered by ip(8) deconfiguring a network interface References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8491 Submitter : Ben Collins [email blocked] Status : Unknown Subject : panic with e1000 driver on HP Integrity servers References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455 Submitter : Doug Chapman [email blocked] Caused-By : Auke Kok [email blocked] commit e0aac5a289b1dacbc94bd9ae8c449bcdf9ab508c Status : problem is being debugged Regards, Michal -- Michal K. K. Piotrowski Kernel Monkeys (http://kernel.wikidot.com/start)
