Michal Piotrowski | 1 Jun 14:21
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[1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions with patches v2

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc3
with patches available.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

ARM

Subject    : arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/devs.c build errors
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/28/18
Submitter  : Qi Yong <qiyong <at> fc-cn.com>
Status     : patch available in -arm tree

Block devices

Subject    : loop devices limited to one single device
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/16/229
Submitter  : Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla <at> gmx.de>
Handled-By : 
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/21/483
Status     : patch available

File systems

Subject    : JFFS2 issues
References : http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-May/018426.html
Submitter  : Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen <at> atmel.com>
Caused-By  : commit 10731f83009e2556f98ffa5c7c2cbffe66dacfb3
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David Woodhouse | 1 Jun 21:41
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Re: [1/3] 2.6.22-rc3: known regressions with patches v2

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:21 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> File systems
> 
> Subject    : JFFS2 issues
> References :
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-May/018426.html
> Submitter  : Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen <at> atmel.com>
> Caused-By  : commit 10731f83009e2556f98ffa5c7c2cbffe66dacfb3
>              Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy <at> nokia.com>
> Handled-By : Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy <at> nokia.com>
> Patch      :
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-May/018453.html
> Status     : patch available

Linus, please pull from git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git

It contains the fix for the above regression, along with a small number
of other bug fixes -- specifically for XATTR-related oopses, and broken
handling of setattr() in JFFS2. There's actually a couple of things
which aren't strictly bug fixes too, but those are very minor. If you
insist, I could redo the history to omit them, but it's probably cleaner
not to.

Artem Bityutskiy (1):
      [JFFS2] Fix buffer length calculations in jffs2_get_inode_nodes()

David Howells (1):
      [MTD] generalise the handling of MTD-specific superblocks

David Woodhouse (4):
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