2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc5 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    : pktcdvd fails with pata_amd
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810
Submitter  : gd at spherenet.de
Status     : unknown


Subject    : problems with CD burning
References : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg06545.html
Submitter  : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla at gmx.de>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : BUG: at fs/inotify.c:172 set_dentry_child_flags()
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7785
Submitter  : Cijoml Cijomlovic Cijomlov <cijoml at volny.cz>
Handled-By : Nick Piggin <nickpiggin at yahoo.com.au>
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     : problem is being discussed


Subject    : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page()  (reiserfs)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/202
Submitter  : Malte Schröder <MalteSch at gmx.de>
Handled-By : Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs at namesys.com>
             Nick Piggin <nickpiggin at yahoo.com.au>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/202
Status     : problem is being discussed


Subject    : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page()  (XFS)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/23/190
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/23/192
Submitter  : Sami Farin <7atbggg02 at sneakemail.com>
Handled-By : David Chinner <dgc at sgi.com>
Status     : patches are being discussed


Subject    : fix geode_configure()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/9/216
Submitter  : Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Caused-By  : takada <takada at mbf.nifty.com>
             commit e4f0ae0ea63caceff37a13f281a72652b7ea71ba
Handled-By : takada <takada at mbf.nifty.com>
             Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Status     : patches are being discussed


Subject    : NFS triggers WARN_ON() in invalidate_inode_pages2_range()
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7826
Submitter  : Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net>
Caused-By  : Andrew Morton <akpm at osdl.org>
             commit 8258d4a574d3a8c01f0ef68aa26b969398a0e140
Handled-By : Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no>
Status     : Trond: the WARN_ON() needs to be thrown out