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2.6.22-rc6: known regressions with patches

PATCH Michal Piotrowski 2 participants 2 messages Jun 25, 2007 1 message not in the archive

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Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc6 with patches available.

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

*STATISTICS* (a.k.a. list of aces)

Name Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007

Andi Kleen                             1
Hugh Dickins                           1
Jean Delvare                           1

FBDEV

Subject : mach64 breakage in 2.6.22
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/14/73
Submitter : Olaf Hering <[email protected]>

Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/21/216
Status : patch was suggested

Memory management

Subject : bug in i386 MTRR initialization
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
Submitter : Andrea Righi <[email protected]>
Status : patch available

Networking

Subject : ERROR: "__ucmpdi2" [drivers/net/s2io.ko] undefined!
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/19/310
Submitter : Olaf Hering <[email protected]>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/19/382
Status : patch was suggested

Subject : no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/3/16
Submitter : Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]>

Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/237
Status : patch was suggested

Regards,
Michal

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Quoted 7 lines · Michal Piotrowski

Memory management

Subject : bug in i386 MTRR initialization
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
Submitter : Andrea Righi <[email protected]>
Status : patch available

This one wasn't a bug in the first place, it was just the regular warning for kmalloc-size-0. The "BUG" string was confusing and has been fixed, and the warning for size-0 has gone away and been replaced by returning a pointer that will fault on dereference instead.

So please remove this one.

Linus