Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755151AbYLBQOa (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:14:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751746AbYLBQOW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:14:22 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56885 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275AbYLBQOV (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:14:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:13:47 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Alejandro_Riveira_Fern=E1ndez?= cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dmitry Baryshkov Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7 In-Reply-To: <20081202165637.09984819@varda> Message-ID: References: <20081202131442.42e7df48@varda> <20081202165637.09984819@varda> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1694 Lines: 41 On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fern?ndez wrote: > > from my reply to pazke > " > I took the sanpshot of the dmesg after loading the module if my word is not > enough i can reboot with the module disabled but i do not see the point... > The truth is that the bug prevented me from loading/installing the nvidia > module becouse i could not use sudo. Only when i rebooted into single mode > where the problems went away i could build and install the module... Ahh, ok. I did wonder if something was up from the timing (ie it was loaded almost two minutes after bootup). Since you are apparently a git user, and 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 was fine, there's really only 270 commits in between that and 2.6.28-rc7. Can I ask you to bisect for a couple of runs, which would cut it down to a handful? (Ie you don't even need to do a full bisect, although that should really only require about 8 reboots). Just do git bisect start git bisect bad v2.6.27 git bisect good v2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 and off you go. That would help enormously. There are very few console-related changes in that range, and the most notably one is actually radeon-specific so it shouldn't be an issue for you. I'd _suspect_ bca404afdc5206c3bb30168315ee8a98a579ec65 ("fbdev: fix FB console blanking"), but quite frankly, it could be something random that just interacted badly. A bisection would narrow things down. Linus -- 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/