linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 00:35:15 +0200
From:	Håkan Lindqvist <lindqvist@...star.se>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	stable@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Riccardo Ricci <rricci@...vanetmore.it>,
	"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@...inf.tu-dresden.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, reiserfs-dev@...esys.com,
	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>,
	Francois SIMOND <curio@...e.fr>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Vincent Frentzel <zcecc22@....ac.uk>,
	François Valenduc 
	<francois.valenduc@...net.be>, Thomas Meyer <thomas.mey@....de>,
	Giorgio Lando <patroclo7@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:30 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Subject    : 2.6.21: sky2 "hw csum failure" problem
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/28/105
> > Submitter  : Håkan Lindqvist <lindqvist@...star.se>
> > Status     : unknown
> > 
> 
> This is not a "regression" it is a bug, that has shown up for
> some users for quite a while, see:
>  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7579
> 
> 

It's not a regression in 2.6.21, but it is a regression as there is an
earlier kernel version where the sky2 driver works properly with this
card.


To me it doesn't really matter which way the problem is classified. I'm
just hoping that there will be a chance of moving past 2.6.16 on this
machine at some point.


Regards,
Håkan Lindqvist

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