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

[Linus Torvalds]

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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date		: 2007-11-02 09:54
> > References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9291
> > Handled-By	: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Patch	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/4/161

Fixed by commit 73946f9fc5be1433f1e182d11303188390ff242f, afaik.

			Linus
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