Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

List of Aces

Name                    Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Adrian Bunk                            6
Andi Kleen                             4
Andrew Morton                          4
Linus Torvalds                         4
Al Viro                                3
Cornelia Huck                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Trent Piepho                           2



FS

Subject         : [NFSD OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1-git10
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/462
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown



Networking

Subject         : IP v4 routing is broken
References      : http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bugs/bug_report01.txt
Last known good : 2.6.22-git2
Submitter       : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : ?
Status          : unknown

Subject         : sky2 boot crash in sky2_mac_intr
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/24/91
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
Caused-By       : 
Handled-By      : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Status          : unknown

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



Power management

Subject         : Kconfig: 'SUSPEND_SMP' refers to undefined symbol 'HOTPLUG_CPU'
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/39
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Status          : unknown



Regards,
Michal

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Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 5 August 2007 18:26, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2.
> 
> Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
> 
 
> Power management
> 
> Subject         : Kconfig: 'SUSPEND_SMP' refers to undefined symbol 'HOTPLUG_CPU'
> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/39
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter       : Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
> Caused-By       : ?
> Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> Status          : unknown

Is being debugged.

Frankly, I don't know what to think about that.  With the Meelis' .config
SUSPEND_SMP can't even be set ...

Greetings,
Rafael


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Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Michal Piotrowski]

Rafael J. Wysocki pisze:
> On Sunday, 5 August 2007 18:26, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2.
>>
>> Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
>> http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions
>>
>  
>> Power management
>>
>> Subject         : Kconfig: 'SUSPEND_SMP' refers to undefined symbol 'HOTPLUG_CPU'
>> References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/4/39
>> Last known good : ?
>> Submitter       : Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
>> Caused-By       : ?
>> Handled-By      : Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
>> Status          : unknown
> 
> Is being debugged.
> 
> Frankly, I don't know what to think about that.  With the Meelis' .config
> SUSPEND_SMP can't even be set ...

Meelis, have you used a "make randconfig" without "make oldconfig"?

Regards,
Michal

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Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Meelis Roos]

> Meelis, have you used a "make randconfig" without "make oldconfig"?

No, just usual make ARCH=ppc oldconfig after cg-update.

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Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Michal Piotrowski]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.23-rc2.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

List of Aces

Name                    Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Adrian Bunk                            6
Andi Kleen                             4
Andrew Morton                          4
Linus Torvalds                         4
Al Viro                                3
Cornelia Huck                          3
Jens Axboe                             3
Tejun Heo                              3
David Woodhouse                        2
Hugh Dickins                           2
Trent Piepho                           2



SCSI

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



USB

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: uhci_hcd. irq 4: nobody cared
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/29/75
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Status          : unknown

Subject         : 2.6.23-rc1: USB hard disk broken
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/25/62
Last known good : ?
Submitter       : Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de>
Caused-By       : ?
Handled-By      : Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Status          : unknown



Virtualization

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



Regards,
Michal

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Re: [3/3] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Virtualization
>
> 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
>   

This is just a chunk of dead code.  It probably doesn't even affect the
generated code.  I've got a patch here for it, and I'll probably post it
in the next day or so, but this seems like a non-issue.

    J