Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 2010 18:36:12 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: hung bootup with "drm/radeon/kms: move radeon KMS on/off switch out of staging." |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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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