Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

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.

			Linus