Re: [Bug #16891] Kernel panic while loading intel module during boot

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:40:59AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, October 04, 2010, Anisse Astier wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> 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?

That sounds good, please cc: stable@kernel.org with the proper
information for this (git commit id, patch info, etc.)

thanks,

greg k-h