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From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shubhangi Shrivastava <shubhangi.shrivastava@intel.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
	intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:43:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160715144330.GI4329@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uFspkDUOh8f-w895rLAe6c8y-FnsuCcT4edG_0XeN0SYg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:27:27PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Larry Finger wrote:
> >> To anyone keeping track of regressions in kernel 4.7, I call your attention to
> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96675.
> >>
> >> This bug causes driver i915 to fail to connect to the display, and results in
> >> a blank screen as soon as the kernel is loaded. The only way to operate with
> >> kernel 4.7 is to add "nomodeset" to the command line. The problem was bisected
> >> to commit f21a21983ef13a ("drm/i915: Splitting intel_dp_detect").
> >
> > Daniel? Jani? Time to revert?
> 
> Yup. Means that I'll get to revert a pile of patches (plus even more
> in -next), but that's what we get for not handling regressions timely.
> Dave poked me about the same bug already too. But will take a few days
> until the pull is in your inbox I guess.

I attached a oneliner to the bug today, that I *think* should fix the
problem.

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-15 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14 19:27 Critical regression in 4.7-rcX Larry Finger
2016-07-15  6:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-07-15 14:27   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-15 14:43     ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2016-07-15 14:53       ` Larry Finger
2016-07-15 15:34       ` Larry Finger
2016-07-15 16:36         ` [Intel-gfx] " Bish, Jim
2016-07-15 17:26           ` Larry Finger

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