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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:55:40 +0900 (JST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Critical regression in 4.7-rcX
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[ Adding the proper people to the cc. ]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Larry Finger wrote:
>
> To anyone keeping track of regressions in kernel 4.7, I call your attention to
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96675.
> 
> This bug causes driver i915 to fail to connect to the display, and results in
> a blank screen as soon as the kernel is loaded. The only way to operate with
> kernel 4.7 is to add "nomodeset" to the command line. The problem was bisected
> to commit f21a21983ef13a ("drm/i915: Splitting intel_dp_detect").

Daniel? Jani? Time to revert?

              Linus