2.6.20-rc7: known regressions (v2) (part 1)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc7 compared to 2.6.19
that are not yet fixed in 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 caused 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    : NULL pointer dereference at as_move_to_dispatch()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/22/141
Submitter  : Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez at qlogic.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : pktcdvd doesn't work with libata pata drivers
             (caused by scsi_lib and pktcdvd patches)
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/25/128
             http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7910
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/30/289
Submitter  : Gerhard Dirschl <gd at spherenet.de>
             Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it at gmail.com>
Caused-By  : Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
             commit 3b00315799d78f76531b71435fbc2643cd71ae4c
             commit 406c9b605cbc45151c03ac9a3f95e9acf050808c
Status     : unknown


Subject    : e1000: 82571EB/82572EI PCI-E cards: link is always down
             (MSI related)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/27
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/17/182
Submitter  : Allen Parker <parker at isohunt.com>
             Adam Kropelin <akropel1 at rochester.rr.com>
Handled-By : Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : powerpc64: performance monitor exception
References : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2007-January/030045.html
Submitter  : Livio Soares <livio at eecg.toronto.edu>
Caused-By  : Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
             commit d04c56f73c30a5e593202ecfcf25ed43d42363a2
Status     : unknown