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

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Message-Id: <200803312231.08003.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:31:07 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>, 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 Monday, 31 of March 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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...

The patch have already been merged, BTW.

Thanks,
Rafael
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