Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:13:47 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7 |
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: > > from my reply to pazke <pazke@ports.donpac.ru> > " > I took the sanpshot of the dmesg after loading the module if my word is not > enough i can reboot with the module disabled but i do not see the point... > The truth is that the bug prevented me from loading/installing the nvidia > module becouse i could not use sudo. Only when i rebooted into single mode > where the problems went away i could build and install the module...
Ahh, ok. I did wonder if something was up from the timing (ie it was loaded almost two minutes after bootup).
Since you are apparently a git user, and 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 was fine, there's really only 270 commits in between that and 2.6.28-rc7. Can I ask you to bisect for a couple of runs, which would cut it down to a handful? (Ie you don't even need to do a full bisect, although that should really only require about 8 reboots).
Just do
git bisect start git bisect bad v2.6.27 git bisect good v2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348
and off you go. That would help enormously.
There are very few console-related changes in that range, and the most notably one is actually radeon-specific so it shouldn't be an issue for you. I'd _suspect_ bca404afdc5206c3bb30168315ee8a98a579ec65 ("fbdev: fix FB console blanking"), but quite frankly, it could be something random that just interacted badly. A bisection would narrow things down.
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