Re: Linux regressions report for mainline [2023-09-24]

[Genes Lists]

On 9/25/23 05:11, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 25.09.23 10:02, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 04:17:40PM +0000, Regzbot (on behalf of Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> > > (2) Nearly six weeks ago there was a report that 101bd907b4244a ("misc:
> > > rtsx: judge ASPM Mode to set PETXCFG Reg") [v6.5-rc6, v6.4.11, v6.1.46,
> > > v5.15.127] broke booting various laptops (many or all of them are Dell).
> > > This apparently plagues quite a few users, hence there were multiple
> > > reports (see [2] for those I'm aware of). At least Fedora, openSUSE, and
> > > nixOS have meanwhile reverted the change in their latest stable kernels
> > > [3]. I one and a half week proposed to revert the culprit when I fully
> > > noticed it's impact, but Greg wanted to give the developers more time.
> > > We finally have a fix in sight now [5]; someone affected replied that it
> > > helps. Not sure what's the right way forward now. But overall this to me
> > > feels a lot like "this is not how a regression should be handled".
> > > That's why I wanted to bring it up here in case to ensure your are aware
> > > of this.
> >
> > We now have confirmed testing that the proposed fix resolves the issue
> > so I'll be getting it to Linus in time for the next -rc.
>
> Many thx!
Thank you all for taking care of this - much appreciated.

gene