[NOTE: I have one request for whoever works on fixing the listed regressions. While your work is highly appreciated anyway, if you have a patch fixing a listed regression or you know of a commit fixing a listed regression, please drop a notice into the corresponding Bugzilla entry. This will help us a lot.]
This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.38, for which there are no fixes in the mainline known to the tracking team. If any of them have been fixed already, please let us know.
If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.38, please let us know either and we'll add them to the list. Also, please let us know if any of the entries below are invalid.
Each entry from the list will be sent additionally in an automatic reply to this message with CCs to the people involved in reporting and handling the issue.
Listed regressions statistics:
Date Total Pending Unresolved ---------------------------------------- 2011-04-30 38 17 16 2011-04-17 17 11 10
Unresolved regressions ----------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34012 Subject : 2.6.39-rc4+: oom-killer busy killing tasks Submitter : Christian Kujau lists@nerdbynature.de Date : 2011-04-22 1:57 (9 days old) Message-ID : alpine.DEB.2.01.1104211841510.18728@trent.utfs.org References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130343744622331&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 Subject : [REGRESSION] [2.6.39-rc3] Wrong resolution in framebuffer and X Window Submitter : Maciej Rutecki maciej.rutecki@gmail.com Date : 2011-04-17 16:04 (14 days old) Message-ID : 201104171804.04664.maciej.rutecki@gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-fbdev&m=130305625114863&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33842 Subject : NULL pointer dereference in ip_fragment Submitter : Tomas Carnecky tom@dbservice.com Date : 2011-04-23 07:51 (8 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33812 Subject : radeon with modeset option causes oops as secondary adapter (vgaswitcheroo) Submitter : Johannes Engel jcnengel@googlemail.com Date : 2011-04-21 23:14 (10 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33792 Subject : lockdep trace when unplugging usb audio (.39rc4) Submitter : Dave Jones davej@redhat.com Date : 2011-04-19 18:07 (12 days old) Message-ID : 20110419180745.GA438@redhat.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130323648920431&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33492 Subject : [bug] 2.6.39-rc3 fails to boot on Alpha Submitter : Mikael Pettersson mikpe@it.uu.se Date : 2011-04-17 15:13 (14 days old) Message-ID : 19883.912.266127.538215@pilspetsen.it.uu.se References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130305321212360&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33482 Subject : [Regression] Bluetooth pairing does not work anymore in 2.6.39-rc3 (works in 2.6.38.3) Submitter : Gottfried Haider gottfried.haider@gmail.com Date : 2011-04-16 16:38 (15 days old) Message-ID : BANLkTi=LvyZ+7BHfVL849pztfvsYaVM4SQ@mail.gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130297197128328&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33432 Subject : WARNING at libata-core.c:5015 in 2.6.39-rc3-wl+, then lockup. Submitter : Ben Greear greearb@candelatech.com Date : 2011-04-13 16:29 (18 days old) Message-ID : 4DA5CF81.4070908@candelatech.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130271220809443&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33422 Subject : oops in radeon_ddc_get_modes on first boot of rc3 Submitter : Steve French smfrench@gmail.com Date : 2011-04-12 17:54 (19 days old) Message-ID : BANLkTikTVuV9eH4GiLDs0DewGJXo_3daeg@mail.gmail.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130263086322702&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33402 Subject : [regression] 2.6.39-rc[1-3] fail to boot on G5 PowerMac Submitter : Mikael Pettersson mikpe@it.uu.se Date : 2011-04-12 17:30 (19 days old) Message-ID : 19876.35918.322649.256455@pilspetsen.it.uu.se References : http://marc.info/?l=linuxppc-embedded&m=130263128523237&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33302 Subject : ACPI reboot broken on HP Compaq nx7300. Submitter : Alexey Zaytsev alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com Date : 2011-04-15 14:44 (16 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/3d35ac346e981162eeba391e496faceed4753e7b
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33272 Subject : drm related hard-hang Submitter : Peter Teoh htmldeveloper@gmail.com Date : 2011-04-14 01:29 (17 days old)
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33242 Subject : Lockdep splat in autofs with 2.6.39-rc2 Submitter : Nick Bowler nbowler@elliptictech.com Date : 2011-04-07 19:44 (24 days old) Message-ID : 20110407194403.GA29404@elliptictech.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130220545614682&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33142 Subject : 2.6.39-rc2 regression: X201s fails to resume b77dcf8460ae57d4eb9fd3633eb4f97b8fb20716 Submitter : Keith Packard keithp@keithp.com Date : 2011-04-06 7:44 (25 days old) Message-ID : yun1v1fj024.fsf@aiko.keithp.com References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130207593728273&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33092 Subject : [regression] 2.6.39-rc1 - Beagleboard usbnet broken Submitter : Mark Jackson mpfj-list@mimc.co.uk Date : 2011-04-04 9:22 (27 days old) First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/087809fce28f50098d9c3ef1a6865c722f23afd2 Message-ID : 4D998DC9.3040109@mimc.co.uk References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130191386508831&w=2
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32982 Subject : Kernel locks up a few minutes after boot Submitter : Bart Van Assche bart.vanassche@gmail.com Date : 2011-04-10 19:55 (21 days old)
Regressions with patches ------------------------
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33802 Subject : list_del corruption in sd driver since 2.6.39-rc4 Submitter : Christian Casteyde casteyde.christian@free.fr Date : 2011-04-21 21:10 (10 days old) Handled-By : James Bottomley James.Bottomley@suse.de Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130271409412095
For details, please visit the bug entries and follow the links given in references.
As you can see, there is a Bugzilla entry for each of the listed regressions. There also is a Bugzilla entry used for tracking the regressions from 2.6.38, unresolved as well as resolved, at:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32012
Please let the tracking team know if there are any Bugzilla entries that should be added to the list in there.
Thanks!