linux-kernel - Re: Soft lockup during suspend since ~2.6.36

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Date:	Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:32:42 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	"Thilo-Alexander Ginkel" <thilo@...kel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Soft lockup during suspend since ~2.6.36

On Monday 04 April 2011, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote:
> ACK. I see two possibilities:
> a) The bug was introduced after the bisected bug was fixed
> b) The bug was already present earlier, but was masked by the bug from
> the bisected change
> 
> I hope for a) as that would open the possibility to bisect this new bug.
> 

In case of b), you can still bisect it when you either apply the later fix
or revert the original patch whenever you build a kernel. Or you can try
to avoid using the usb-hid driver during bisect.

	Arnd
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