From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc2-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.34
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:06:11 +0200
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On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> [ Added lots of cc's to direct specific people to look at the regressions 
>   that may or may not be theirs... ]
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> >  * Quite a few of the already reported regressions may be related to the bug
> >    fixed by 386f40c86d6c8d5b717ef20620af1a750d0dacb4 (Revert "tty: fix a little
> >    bug in scrup, vt.c"), so reporters please retest with this commit applied.]
> 
> From a quick look, most of them look unrelated to that unfortunate bug. 
> It's hard to tell for sure, of course (memory corruption can do pretty 
> much anything), but I'm not seeing the 07200720.. pattern at least.
> 
> And some of them do seem to be bisected to likely culprits and/or have 
> patches that are claimed to have fixed them.
> 
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16163
> > Subject	: [2.6.35-rc1 Regression] i915: Commit cfecde causes VGA to stay off
> > Submitter	: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org>
> > Date		: 2010-06-02 12:52 (7 days old)
> > Message-ID	: <4C065423.3000202@xenontk.org>
> > References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127548313828613&w=2
> 
> That has a "reverting the commit fixes it", and a confirmation from Nick 
> Bowler.
> 
> Eric, Carl: should I just revert that commit? Or do you have a fix?

This one is reported to have been fixed already.  Closed now.

...
> 
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16104
> > Subject	: Radeon KMS does not start after merge of the new PM-Code
> > Submitter	: Jan Kreuzer <kontrollator@gmx.de>
> > Date		: 2010-06-02 07:47 (7 days old)
> 
> This one also has a patch in Bugzilla, I think Airlie is just waiting to 
> calm down his queue and already removed the dependency on the temperature 
> code. DaveA?

This should be fixed by commit f8ed8b4c5d30b5214f185997131b06e35f6f7113, so
closing now.

Rafael