From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934338AbZJNOyW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:54:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934251AbZJNOyV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:54:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42776 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934040AbZJNOyU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:54:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:53:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Michael Ellerman cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Boyan , Kernel Testers List , fredlwm@gmail.com, Ed Tomlinson , OGAWA Hirofumi , Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Characters vanishing in the tty layer? (maybe related to [Bug #14388] keyboard under X with 2.6.31) In-Reply-To: <1255501294.21962.24.camel@concordia> Message-ID: References: <1255501294.21962.24.camel@concordia> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > I'm using 80f5069 or thereabouts, plus some powerpc patches. We also see > the bug in 31, but not in 27. Could you bisect it? Even if you don't bisect it _all_ the way, 27..31 is a big range. Doing just a handful of bisections (say six or seven) would cut down the number of commits from 47 thousand to somewhat more manageable "hundreds of commits"... But obviously going all the way would be better. Linus