2.6.19-rc1: known regressions (v2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.19-rc1 compared to 2.6.18
that are not yet fixed Linus' tree.

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
of you was declared guilty for a breakage or I'm considering you in any
other way possibly involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.


Subject    : SMP x86_64 boot problem
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/28/330
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/289
Submitter  : art at usfltd.com
Status     : submitter was asked to git bisect
             result of bisecting seems to be wrong


Subject    : snd-hda-intel <-> forcedeth MSI problem
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/40
Submitter  : Prakash Punnoor <prakash at punnoor.de>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : oops in xfrm_register_mode
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/170
Submitter  : Steve Fox <drfickle at us.ibm.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : T60 stops triggering any ACPI events
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/4/425
Submitter  : "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : thinkpad x60: brightness no longer adjustable in 2.6.18-git
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/2/300
Submitter  : Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz>
Status     : unknown, related to the issue above?


Subject    : monitor not active after boot
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/338
Submitter  : Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Guilty     : Antonino Daplas <adaplas at pol.net>
             commit 346bc21026e7a92e1d7a4a1b3792c5e8b686133d
Status     : unknown


Subject    : sata-via doesn't detect anymore disks attached to VIA vt6421
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7255
Submitter  : Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud at mandriva.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : ueagle-atm Oops
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/390
Submitter  : Ernst Herzberg <list-lkml at net4u.de>
Handled-By : Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu at free.fr>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : DVD drive lost DVD capabilities
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/1/45
Submitter  : Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Guilty     : Jens Axboe <axboe at oracle.com>
             commit 4aff5e2333c9a1609662f2091f55c3f6fffdad36
Handled-By : Jens Axboe <axboe at oracle.com>
Status     : Jens is working on a fix


Subject    : sleep/wakeup on powerbooks apparently busted
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/13
Submitter  : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Handled-By : Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Status     : Benjamin will investigate


Subject    : doesn't boot on iBook G4
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/305
Submitter  : Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse.de>
Handled-By : Mel Gorman <mel at skynet.ie>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/80
Status     : patch available


Subject    : airo suspend fails
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/3
Submitter  : Alex Romosan <romosan at sycorax.lbl.gov>
Guilty     : Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com>  (?)
             commit 3b4c7d640376dbccfe80fc4f7b8772ecc7de28c5  (?)
Handled-By : Dave Kleikamp <shaggy at austin.ibm.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/7/139
Status     : patch available


Subject    : NFSv4 fails to mount (timeout)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7274
Submitter  : Torsten Kaiser <kernel at bardioc.dyndns.org>
Guilty     : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
             commit 51b6ded4d9a94a61035deba1d8f51a54e3a3dd86
Handled-By : Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7274
Status     : patch available


Subject    : kexec broken on x86_64
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/86
Submitter  : Magnus Damm <magnus.damm at gmail.com>
Handled-By : Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/199
Status     : patch available


Subject    : strange ieee1394 messages
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/5/154
Submitter  : "Alistair John Strachan" <s0348365 at sms.ed.ac.uk>
Guilty     : Stefan Richter <stefanr at s5r6.in-berlin.de>
             commit d2f119fe319528da8c76a1107459d6f478cbf28c
Handled-By : Stefan Richter <stefanr at s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/6/235
Status     : harmless, patch available