Re: hung bootup with "drm/radeon/kms: move radeon KMS on/off switchout of staging."

[Ingo Molnar]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > Well, once i applied the revert i got no more hangs or crashes today, in 
> > lots of bootups. This is fully repeatable - if i re-apply that commit 
> > with the config i sent the hang happens again.
> 
> But that's just because when it was in staging, you'd never enable it, 
> right? Because your config generator always turns off staging stuff. IOW, 
> it's not the code - it's more an interaction with how your test-bed works.

Correct. Staging drivers can crash and there's no guarantee of quick 
regression fixes (although fixes are generally quick so this isnt a 
complaint), so i exclude them from boot testing.

Anyway, i've essentially moved it back to staging as far as my testing goes, 
that solves the problem too.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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