linux-kernel - Re: Linux regressions report for mainline [2023-09-24]

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Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:04:29 -0400
From:   Genes Lists <lists@...ience.com>
To:     Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux regressions report for mainline [2023-09-24]

On 9/25/23 05:11, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 25.09.23 10:02, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 04:17:40PM +0000, Regzbot (on behalf of Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
>>> (2) Nearly six weeks ago there was a report that 101bd907b4244a ("misc:
>>> rtsx: judge ASPM Mode to set PETXCFG Reg") [v6.5-rc6, v6.4.11, v6.1.46,
>>> v5.15.127] broke booting various laptops (many or all of them are Dell).
>>> This apparently plagues quite a few users, hence there were multiple
>>> reports (see [2] for those I'm aware of). At least Fedora, openSUSE, and
>>> nixOS have meanwhile reverted the change in their latest stable kernels
>>> [3]. I one and a half week proposed to revert the culprit when I fully
>>> noticed it's impact, but Greg wanted to give the developers more time.
>>> We finally have a fix in sight now [5]; someone affected replied that it
>>> helps. Not sure what's the right way forward now. But overall this to me
>>> feels a lot like "this is not how a regression should be handled".
>>> That's why I wanted to bring it up here in case to ensure your are aware
>>> of this.
>>
>> We now have confirmed testing that the proposed fix resolves the issue
>> so I'll be getting it to Linus in time for the next -rc.
> 
> Many thx!
> 
Thank you all for taking care of this - much appreciated.

gene