Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759275AbYC1WPp (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:15:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758932AbYC1WPa (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:15:30 -0400 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:54723 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758713AbYC1WP2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:15:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:14:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jikos@twin.jikos.cz To: Linus Torvalds , Johannes Berg cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List , NetDev , Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Oops/Warning report for the week of March 28th 2008 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <47ED3F1A.1090101@linux.intel.com> (sfid-20080328_205203_254278_BF9EB41F) <1206738071.22530.80.camel@johannes.berg> <1206740581.22530.83.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 25 On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I tend to think it's actually a regression, I've done exactly what I > > described there dozens of times before on older kernels and it doesn't > > seem to be a race condition, X always locks the input device and I > > never had trouble with that before. > Ahh. So it's easily repeatable for you.. Do you think you could bisect it? > At least a few runs? Even a partial bisection will give a nice (== much > smaller) range of commits to be blamed, and might tell us why it started > happening.. ... and if bisecting the whole tree isn't the way for you to go right now, maybe restricting to drivers/input/ and drivers/base/ (as I think this might be some broken driver core refcounting) and possibly drivers/hid/ (if you are using any HID input device) might also be sufficient. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/