linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc8-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

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Date:	Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:10:19 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.24

On Saturday, 5 of April 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10349
> > Subject		: regression: am-utils stopped working in 2.6.25-rc*
> > Submitter	: Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
> > Date		: 2008-03-28 15:20 (7 days old)
> > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/28/174
> 
> This seems to be a bug in am-utils:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.am-utils.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612
> 
> and while we try very hard to not break existing binaries that assume some 
> old broken kernel behaviour, things like system setup code that is 
> outright buggy is kind of exempt from that rule. So I think in this case 
> it really is a user-level issue.

OK, closed.

> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10346
> > Subject		: Linux 2.6.25-rc6: WARNING: at net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:2510
> > Submitter	: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf@...xsol.org>
> > Date		: 2008-03-27 17:29 (8 days old)
> > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/27/246
> 
> I wouldn't call this a regression. It's a hard-to-trigger warning that is 
> being debugged. 

Dropped from the list.

Thanks,
Rafael
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