2007-05-29 12:53:54

by Michal Piotrowski

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Subject: Re: [4/4] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc3.

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



V4L

Subject : V4L ABI breakage
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/42
Submitter : Robert Fitzsimons <[email protected]>
Caused-By : Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
commit 206ebaf32795cf1582b1e2ff2ec6a560c9e986b8
Workaround : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=15ac2d293b08b6975c6ca1a80eb839d4cb0dddbf
Status : problem is being debugged


x86-64

Subject : x86-64 2.6.22-rc2 random segfaults
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/275
Submitter : Ioan Ionita <[email protected]>
Status : Unknown



Regards,
Michal

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-- Andrzej Sapkowski "Co? wi?cej"



2007-06-09 11:40:37

by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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Subject: Re: [4/4] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions

Hi Michal,

> Subject : V4L ABI breakage
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/42
> Submitter : Robert Fitzsimons <[email protected]>
> Caused-By : Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
> commit 206ebaf32795cf1582b1e2ff2ec6a560c9e986b8
> Workaround : http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=15ac2d293b08b6975c6ca1a80eb839d4cb0dddbf
> Status : problem is being debugged

I've just sent today a pull request to Linus with the proper fixes for
this issue. Some changes were done at the ABI to avoid the breakage,
while keeping the capability to control TV Out on ivtv driver. The
changes are being tested since Jun, 2.

The related changesets are those:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=987e00ba5cf667beed2b88bd1d01150334cdb6dc
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f137600cacf9a2908529c7d544de82672226a98

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Cheers,
Mauro