linux-kernel - Re: [git pull drm fixes

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Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:51:42 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	DRI mailing list <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Francesco Allertsen <fallertsen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull drm fixes

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote:
>> Isn't "drm/i915: Try enabling RC6 by default (again)" still broken for
>> some people? Keith, Francesco? If Linus pulls now, we end up with
>> broken i915 in -rc1 once again, no?
>
> I think we are trying again with RC6, if it doesn't work this time,
> it'll get reverted before release. Its really a useful feature and the
> more testing of it the Intel guys can get the quicker they seem to be
> able to make it more likely to be the default.

Please don't do that! The RC6 patch is known to be broken for at least
one configuration:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1033782/

See the last email from Francesco. I don't know why you insist pushing
patches that are known to be fragile in the past without getting broad
Tested-by tags from people who have been affected in the past.

                       Pekka
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