From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [Bug #16891] Kernel panic while loading intel module during boot Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 00:40:59 +0200 Message-ID: <201010050040.59281.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <201010042142.29402.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Anisse Astier , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Maciej Rutecki , Florian Mickler , Eric Anholt , Tim Gardner , Daniel Vetter , Andrew Morton , Jesse Barnes , Chris Wilson On Monday, October 04, 2010, Anisse Astier wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> I'll provide this patch here in the meantime in case anyone is interested. > > > > Thanks for the update and the patch. > > > > Well, I wonder who's going to merge it? > > > > I'm not sure is going to be merged because most of this code has been > re-written and has been sitting in drm-intel-next for a few weeks now. > This (welcome) rewrite will likely be merged in 2.6.37 (but I can't > speak for Chris). > > This is a port of this patch: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=e5e408fc94595aab897f613b6f4e2f5b36870a6f > , but on completely different code. > > Also this patch is new and didn't see much testing (I tested on 4 > different Intel GPUs, belonging only to 2 different families); if it's > not merged for 2.6.36, it won't be for 2.6.37 (the new code will land > first). If that happens, it might not meet conditions to be accepted > in -stable (being in linus' tree first). It's a panic fix, so I think it is -stable material anyway. Greg? Thanks, Rafael