2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (part 2)

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc6 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    : 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    : pktcdvd fails with pata_amd
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/25/128
Submitter  : Gerhard Dirschl <gd at spherenet.de>
Caused-By  : Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
             commit 406c9b605cbc45151c03ac9a3f95e9acf050808c
             commit 3b00315799d78f76531b71435fbc2643cd71ae4c
Status     : problem is being debugged


Subject    : SELinux compile error with CONFIG_XFRM=n
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/25/233
Submitter  : Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski at gmail.com>
Caused-By  : Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala at TrustedCS.com>
             commit 334c85569b8adeaa820c0f2fab3c8f0a9dc8b92e
Handled-By : Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala at TrustedCS.com>
             David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Status     : problem is being discussed


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 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    : 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