linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

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Message-Id: <20071208012354.c808f9d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Sat, 8 Dec 2007 01:23:54 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:28:15 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > Subject         : Battery shows up twice in kpowersave
> > > Submitter       : Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
> > > References      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9494
> > > Handled-By      : Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
> > > Patch           :
> > >
> > 
> > I don't think that this is a regression: I reported on RedHat bugzilla 
> > when I switched from F7 to F8 and I was using 2.6.23.8 at that time. 
> > It looks to me an HAL regression, but of course I may be wrong :-) as 
> > the reported bisected to a bad commit.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373041
> > 
> > By the way, I now switched to Fedrora Rawhide with a 2.6.24-rc4-git5 
> > custom kernel and Gnome desktop and the problem is still present, even 
> > with gnome-power-manager.
> 
> to me this looks like an ABI regression - utilities should work without 
> change. Something changed in /sys output that caused HAL to think that 
> there are two batteries:

Yep.  Although HAL is of course a most special case of "userspace".

> | The output of lshal shows that there are two UDI's with 
> | info.capabilities = { 'battery' }:
> |
> | udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_BAT0'
> | udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_0'
> 
> whether it's a HAL bug or a kernel bug, the original state should be 
> restored and it should be worked out without breaking users of older HAL 
> versions.

"breaking users of older HAL versions" == "breaking machines".

The patch should be reverted.  Do we know which one it was?

> grumble: way too many times do various system utilities break when i 
> upgrade the kernel on my laptop. Maybe a new debug mechanism: we should 
> start fingerprinting the exact /sys and /proc output and enforce that 
> it's immutable across kernel releases as long as the hardware is 
> unmodified?

That would be neat.  It would need to be executed on a lot of different
machines.

I wonder if there's something sneaky we can do here.  Install the script in
/lib/modules/$(uname -r) and then run it from the kernel when the fork
count reaches 1000 ;)

(hey, I've seen worse: /proc files which start with #!/bin/sh)
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