From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] X doesn't work with 2.6.33 (can't find any input devices)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:13:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100307011335.GA5149@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9971003042111n5b5145c5sd9b62b53522cfd86@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:11:53PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM, <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > See Linus's complaints over the nouveau driver; it's the same
> > principle; something is really broken.
>
> Not really, this is just somebody doing something stupid one would hope,
>
> does lshal on both kernels give similiar results?
No, it's quite different. See attached.
--- lshal-2.6.33 2010-03-06 10:15:44.837265508 -0500
+++ lshal-2.6.32-git4 2010-03-06 18:45:35.782582002 -0500
@@ -1,17 +1,2446 @@
-Dumping 23 device(s) from the Global Device List:
+Dumping 149 device(s) from the Global Device List:
-------------------------------------------------
...
It looks like it's fixed as of 2.6.33-git10. Hopefully whoever fixed
it will backport it to 2.6.33-STABLE, since this will seriously screw
up anyone wanting to use 2.6.33 at least on Ubuntu; I don't know about
other distributions.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-07 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 15:17 [REGRESSION] X doesn't work with 2.6.33 (can't find any input devices) tytso
2010-03-03 15:20 ` David Miller
2010-03-05 4:40 ` tytso
2010-03-05 5:11 ` Dave Airlie
2010-03-07 1:13 ` tytso [this message]
2010-03-05 5:18 ` Dave Airlie
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