linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801171606300.2957@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:18:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, bunk@...nel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23



On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> There are thirteen regressions for which we have patches but they aren't
> merged.  That seems rather high.

I think a number of them have been merged, or the thing that caused them 
reverted. For example.

> > Subject		: [2.6.24-rc6] pdflush still stuck in D state regression
> > Submitter	: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko@...ulin.net>
> > Date		: 2007-11-02 09:54
> > References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9291
> > Handled-By	: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14219&action=view

Isn't this the same write-back-related thing, reverted by 
c23f72cae9523d29ff94eec8f30ccbdaf234b20e?

> > Subject		: snd_hda_intel 2.6.24-rc2 bug: interrupts don't always work on Lenovo X60s
> > Submitter	: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
> > Date		: 2007-11-08 14:55
> > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255
> > 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332
> > Handled-By	: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> > 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66

This patch went in, but was reverted because it caused more problems than 
it fixed. And what it "fixed" was somewhat dubious anyway.

> > Subject	: jiffies counter leaps in 2.6.24-rc3
> > Submitter	: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>
> > Date	: 2007-11-29 08:36
> > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/24/53
> > 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9475
> > Handled-By	: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > Patch	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/132

I think this is just the printk timestamp, no? And I think Ingo fixed it 
differently.

> > Subject	: PATA_HPT37X embezzles two ports
> > Submitter	: "Bjoern Olausson" <lkmlist@...il.com>
> > Date	: 2007-12-12 11:05
> > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/12/161
> > 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9551
> > Handled-By	: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > Patch	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/161

Fixed by commit 73946f9fc5be1433f1e182d11303188390ff242f, afaik.

			Linus
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