2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions

[Adrian Bunk]

This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc4 compared to 2.6.19.

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    : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117
Submitter  : Malte Schröder <MalteSch at gmx.de>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : netfilter conntrack Oopses
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/156
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/188
Submitter  : Bernhard Schmidt <berni at birkenwald.de>
             Peter Osterlund <petero2 at telia.com>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/174
Submitter  : Komuro <komurojun-mbn at nifty.com>
Caused-By  : YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org>
             commit cfb6eeb4c860592edd123fdea908d23c6ad1c7dc
Handled-By : YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji at linux-ipv6.org>
Status     : problem is being debugged


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>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : BUG: scheduling while atomic: hald-addon-stor/...
             cdrom_{open,release,ioctl} in trace
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/105
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/29/22
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/31/133
Submitter  : Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com>
             Damien Wyart <damien.wyart at free.fr>
             Aaron Sethman <androsyn at ratbox.org>
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    : x86_64 boot failure: "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work"
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/16/101
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/3/9
Submitter  : Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel at tdiedrich.de>
Caused-By  : Andi Kleen <ak at suse.de>
             commit b026872601976f666bae77b609dc490d1834bf77
Handled-By : Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu at amd.com>
             Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Status     : patches are being discussed


Subject    : USB keyboard unresponsive after some time
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/25/35
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/26/106
Submitter  : Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net>
Status     : unknown


Subject    : Acer Extensa 3002 WLMi: 'shutdown -h now' reboots the system
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/25/40
Submitter  : Berthold Cogel <cogel at rrz.uni-koeln.de>
Handled-By : Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy at linux.intel.com>
Status     : problem is being debugged