[2/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20.

If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way
possibly involved with one or more of these issues.

Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.


Subject    : ACPI: Crashes + hangs during modprobe processor
                   unless "processor.nocst"
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8346
Submitter  : Olaf Kirch [off-list ref]
Status     : unknown


Subject    : kernels fail to boot with drives on ATIIXP controller
             (ACPI/IRQ related)
References : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229621
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/257
Submitter  : Michal Jaegermann [off-list ref]
Status     : unknown


Subject    : ali_pata: boot from CD fails
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160
Submitter  : Stephen Clark [off-list ref]
Status     : unknown


Subject    : boot failure: rtl8139: exception in interrupt routine
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160
Submitter  : Stephen Clark [off-list ref]
Status     : unknown


Subject    : qla2xxx driver no longer works
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/16/49
             http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/20/224
Submitter  : David Miller [off-list ref]
             Robert Peterson [off-list ref]
Handled-By : David Miller [off-list ref]
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/16/234
Status     : patch was suggested