Re: 2.6.35-rc2-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.34

Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-06-09T09:06:11Z

On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> [ Added lots of cc's to direct specific people to look at the regressions
> that may or may not be theirs... ]
>
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > * Quite a few of the already reported regressions may be related to the bug
> > fixed by 386f40c86d6c8d5b717ef20620af1a750d0dacb4 (Revert "tty: fix a little
> > bug in scrup, vt.c"), so reporters please retest with this commit applied.]
>
> From a quick look, most of them look unrelated to that unfortunate bug.
> It's hard to tell for sure, of course (memory corruption can do pretty
> much anything), but I'm not seeing the 07200720.. pattern at least.
>
> And some of them do seem to be bisected to likely culprits and/or have
> patches that are claimed to have fixed them.
>
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16163
> > Subject : [2.6.35-rc1 Regression] i915: Commit cfecde causes VGA to stay off
> > Submitter : David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
> > Date : 2010-06-02 12:52 (7 days old)
> > Message-ID : <4C065423.3000202@xenontk.org>
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127548313828613&w=2
>
> That has a "reverting the commit fixes it", and a confirmation from Nick
> Bowler.
>
> Eric, Carl: should I just revert that commit? Or do you have a fix?

This one is reported to have been fixed already. Closed now.

...
>
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16104
> > Subject : Radeon KMS does not start after merge of the new PM-Code
> > Submitter : Jan Kreuzer <kontrollator@gmx.de>
> > Date : 2010-06-02 07:47 (7 days old)
>
> This one also has a patch in Bugzilla, I think Airlie is just waiting to
> calm down his queue and already removed the dependency on the temperature
> code. DaveA?

This should be fixed by commit f8ed8b4c5d30b5214f185997131b06e35f6f7113, so
closing now.

Rafael

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate
GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the
lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo
--