Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761511AbYAROH3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:07:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755353AbYAROHW (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:07:22 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:38788 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754226AbYAROHV (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:07:21 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:10:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, bunk@kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Takashi Iwai , Shaohua Li , Jay Vosburgh , Alan Cox , Stephen Hemminger , Dmitry Torokhov , "Eric W. Biederman" , Alexey Starikovskiy , Geert Uytterhoeven References: <200801180035.42878.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080117155809.7ebc3bb7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801181510.10180.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2942 Lines: 72 On Friday, 18 of January 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > There are thirteen regressions for which we have patches but they aren't > > merged. That seems rather high. > > I think a number of them have been merged, or the thing that caused them > reverted. For example. > > > > Subject : [2.6.24-rc6] pdflush still stuck in D state regression > > > Submitter : "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" > > > Date : 2007-11-02 09:54 > > > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9291 > > > Handled-By : Dave Kleikamp > > > Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14219&action=view > > Isn't this the same write-back-related thing, reverted by > c23f72cae9523d29ff94eec8f30ccbdaf234b20e? This patch is certainly different. It's against JFS only and that one was generic (and from a different author, btw). > > > Subject : snd_hda_intel 2.6.24-rc2 bug: interrupts don't always work on Lenovo X60s > > > Submitter : Roland Dreier > > > Date : 2007-11-08 14:55 > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255 > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332 > > > Handled-By : Takashi Iwai > > > Ingo Molnar > > > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66 > > This patch went in, but was reverted because it caused more problems than > it fixed. And what it "fixed" was somewhat dubious anyway. It was reported to break suspend on one box, but Takashi wants it in, AFAICS, as quite some time has been invested into figuring out what's going wrong in that case. > > > Subject : jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3 > > > Submitter : Stefano Brivio > > > Date : 2007-11-29 08:36 > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/24/53 > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475 > > > Handled-By : Ingo Molnar > > > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/132 > > I think this is just the printk timestamp, no? And I think Ingo fixed it > differently. Explained by Ingo. > > > Subject : PATA_HPT37X embezzles two ports > > > Submitter : "Bjoern Olausson" > > > Date : 2007-12-12 11:05 > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/12/161 > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9551 > > > Handled-By : Alan Cox > > > Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/161 > > Fixed by commit 73946f9fc5be1433f1e182d11303188390ff242f, afaik. Well, I'm not sure. the commit is from November 5 and the patch is from January 4. Also, the mscreg change is missing from the commit. Greetings, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/