linux-kernel - Re: X200: Brightness broken since 2.6.29-rc4-58-g4c098bc

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Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:54:34 +0100
From:	Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-20090213@...ottelius.org>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-20090213@...ottelius.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: X200: Brightness broken since 2.6.29-rc4-58-g4c098bc

Len Brown [Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:05:28PM -0500]:
> Nico,
> there are not a lot of changes between rc4 and the breakage,
> (and none of them jump out at me) can you git-bisect?

The result of git-bisecting and some reboots:

ikn% git bisect start 4c098bc d5b5623
[compile....reboot...]
[16:50] ikn:linux-2.6% git describe 
v2.6.29-rc3-432-g9b8d5a1
[16:50] ikn:linux-2.6% git bisect good
e806b4957412bf472d826bd8cc571da041248799 is first bad commit
commit e806b4957412bf472d826bd8cc571da041248799
Author: Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
Date:   Thu Jan 22 09:56:58 2009 -0800

    drm/i915: Suppress GEM teardown on X Server exit in KMS mode.
    
    Fixes hangs when starting X for the second time.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
    Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>

:040000 040000 5405babd9cab9d53791a0b58b5ad7f823f76ec9c 70f9a79c6b3072ea0777d6ab307330da37af076c M
        drivers

I saved almost all dmesg outputs, if you need some ;-)

Sincerly,

Nico

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