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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Thilo-Alexander Ginkel" <thilo@ginkel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Soft lockup during suspend since ~2.6.36
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:32:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104041732.42489.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim4Ro+u-9jfLPV1-+tM88xtvN-VTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 04 April 2011, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
> ACK. I see two possibilities:
> a) The bug was introduced after the bisected bug was fixed
> b) The bug was already present earlier, but was masked by the bug from
> the bisected change
> 
> I hope for a) as that would open the possibility to bisect this new bug.
> 

In case of b), you can still bisect it when you either apply the later fix
or revert the original patch whenever you build a kernel. Or you can try
to avoid using the usb-hid driver during bisect.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-03  2:03 Soft lockup during suspend since ~2.6.36 Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
2011-04-03  6:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2011-04-03 17:32   ` Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
2011-04-03 21:08     ` Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
2011-04-04  3:02       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 13:57         ` Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
2011-04-04 14:40           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 15:02             ` Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
2011-04-04 15:32               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-04-09 16:37                 ` Pavel Machek

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