linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <20080331193516.GC23259@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:35:16 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc7-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:24:10PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:48:15PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> Rafael,
>>>
>>> Add this one to the list?
>>
>>
>> That's not a regression from 2.6.24
> ..
>
> 2.6.24 does not flood my syslog with those messages.
> 2.6.25-rc* does.   Looks like a regression.
>
> The original bug was a hidden regression in 2.6.23,
> which nobody bothered to identify until now.

Let's try to get this patch into Linus' tree without arguing 
whether it might be called a post 2.6.24 regression or not.  ;)

> Just because some code "gets away with" a regression
> for a kernel or two, doesn't mean that regression shouldn't be fixed.

No disagreement on this one.

We already have over 200 known (and many more once reported) regressions 
in the kernel, and all of them should be fixed...

> Cheers

cu
Adrian

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