On 04/03/2013 03:16 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Joseph Salisbury
> <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> A bug was opened against the Ubuntu kernel[0]. After a kernel
> bisect, it was found the following was the first bad commit:
>
>
> commit c2fb7916927e989ea424e61ce5fe617e54878827
> Merge: 29de6ce 6f0c058
> Author: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Date: Mon Oct 22 14:34:51 2012 +0200
>
> Merge tag 'v3.7-rc2' into drm-intel-next-queued
>
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>
> The regression was introduced as of v3.8-rc1. However, further
> testing also shows this bug is now fixed in v3.9-rc4.
>
> I see that you are the author of this patch, so I wanted see if I
> can get your feedback. Do you happen to have an idea what may
> have fixed this in v3.9-rc4, so we can send a request to stable,
> if not already done? Otherwise, I can perform a reverse bisect to
> see which commit fixed this.
>
>
> So apparently it's an oops somewhere in the nouveau setup code, which
> bisected to a backmerge which has _only_ conflicts in drm/i915 driver
> code.
>
> I have no idea what blew up here, sorry.
> -Daniel
Thanks for the info, Daniel. I'll go the reverse bisect route.
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> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
> [0] http://pad.lv/1109309
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> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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