Re: [Bug #16891] Kernel panic while loading intel module during boot

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, October 04, 2010, Anisse Astier wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I'll provide this patch here in the meantime in case anyone is interested.
> >
> > Thanks for the update and the patch.
> >
> > Well, I wonder who's going to merge it?
> >
> 
> I'm not sure is going to be merged because most of this code has been
> re-written and has been sitting in drm-intel-next for a few weeks now.
> This (welcome) rewrite will likely be merged in 2.6.37 (but I can't
> speak for Chris).
> 
> This is a port of this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ickle/drm-intel.git;a=commit;h=e5e408fc94595aab897f613b6f4e2f5b36870a6f
> , but on completely different code.
> 
> Also this patch is new and didn't see much testing (I tested on 4
> different Intel GPUs, belonging only to 2 different families); if it's
> not merged for 2.6.36, it won't be for 2.6.37 (the new code will land
> first). If that happens, it might not meet conditions to be accepted
> in -stable (being in linus' tree first).

It's a panic fix, so I think it is -stable material anyway.  Greg?

Thanks,
Rafael
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