Re: Kernel panic on Google Pixel devices due to regulator patch

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 12:03:08 EST


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 05:24:24PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 04:18:06PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > What you appear to have caught here is an interaction with some
> > unreviewed vendor code - how much of that is going on in the vendor
> > trees you're not testing? If we want to encourage people to pull in
> > stable we should be paying attention to that sort of stuff.

> I get weekly merge reports from all of the major SoC vendors when they
> pull these releases into their tree and run through their full suite of
> tests. So I am paying attention to this type of thing.

Are you sure you're not just definining major SoC vendors as being
people who send you reports here? :P In any case, that's only going to
cover a limited subset of potential drivers and subsystems, devices that
don't appear on reference designs aren't going to get any coverage at
all that way for example.

> What I need to figure out here is what is going wrong and why the SoC's
> testing did not catch this. That's going to take a bit longer...

There's a reasonable chance this is something board specific.

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