linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32

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Message-ID: <84144f021001170923o30d37becw57ebbd780f63b69e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:23:35 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m.s.tsirkin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc2: Reported regressions from 2.6.32

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
> (Please don't trim the cc list.)
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org> wrote:
>> on which side of the merge? linus or drm?
>> i.e. it is to be expected to be before the merge, (but on the drm side)
>> so don't get confused... or did i misunderstood the situation?
>
> Like I said, don't read too much into the results but the current
> situation looks like the regression happened _after_ 2.6.32 but before
> any of the DRM code was merged to 2.6.33-rc1. I don't think that makes
> much sense which is why I'm back to testing 2.6.32 more to see if the
> bug is there already but just harder to trigger for whatever reason.

OK, confirmed. I can see the "flashing" bug with 2.6.32 as well. It
just takes more time to trigger than in 2.6.33-rc1. I am going back to
test 2.6.31 now.
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