From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx2.suse.de", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44398DDEE8 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:31:28 +1100 (EST) From: Andreas Schwab To: Richard Purdie Subject: Nvidiafb broken in 2.6.21-rc1 Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:31:11 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , With 2.6.21-rc1 I get no video signal from nvidiafb on PowerMac G5. Bisection has identified this patch: commit 599a52d12629394236d785615808845823875868 Author: Richard Purdie Date: Sat Feb 10 23:07:48 2007 +0000 backlight: Separate backlight properties from backlight ops pointers Per device data such as brightness belongs to the indivdual device and should therefore be separate from the the backlight operation function pointers. This patch splits the two types of data and allows simplifcation of some code. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750979AbXBXLbZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:31:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750982AbXBXLbZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:31:25 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36331 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750971AbXBXLbY (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:31:24 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Richard Purdie Subject: Nvidiafb broken in 2.6.21-rc1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org X-Yow: -- I can do ANYTHING ... I can even ... SHOPLIFT!! Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:31:11 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With 2.6.21-rc1 I get no video signal from nvidiafb on PowerMac G5. Bisection has identified this patch: commit 599a52d12629394236d785615808845823875868 Author: Richard Purdie Date: Sat Feb 10 23:07:48 2007 +0000 backlight: Separate backlight properties from backlight ops pointers Per device data such as brightness belongs to the indivdual device and should therefore be separate from the the backlight operation function pointers. This patch splits the two types of data and allows simplifcation of some code. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."