Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX

[Linus Torvalds]

[ Adding the proper people to the cc. ]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> To anyone keeping track of regressions in kernel 4.7, I call your attention to
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96675.
> 
> This bug causes driver i915 to fail to connect to the display, and results in
> a blank screen as soon as the kernel is loaded. The only way to operate with
> kernel 4.7 is to add "nomodeset" to the command line. The problem was bisected
> to commit f21a21983ef13a ("drm/i915: Splitting intel_dp_detect").

Daniel? Jani? Time to revert?

              Linus