Hi,

I just updated to the latest kernel from git to test some other patches
and after logging into GDM the X server hangs before launching the
desktop (it appears to be trying to run glxinfo) on my Thinkpad T61
(i915 graphics). Bisection shows this happens after applying this
commit:

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 08:32 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Please pull the 'drm-next' branch from
> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-next
[...]
> commit 7c1c2871a6a3a114853ec6836e9035ac1c0c7f7a
> Author: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri Nov 28 14:22:24 2008 +1000
> 
>     drm: move to kref per-master structures.
>     
>     This is step one towards having multiple masters sharing a drm
>     device in order to get fast-user-switching to work.
>     
>     It splits out the information associated with the drm master
>     into a separate kref counted structure, and allocates this when
>     a master opens the device node. It also allows the current master
>     to abdicate (say while VT switched), and a new master to take over
>     the hardware.
>     
>     It moves the Intel and radeon drivers to using the sarea from
>     within the new master structures.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com>

Is this issue known? I'm presuming my userspace should continue to work
after that change! :)

Cheers,

Richard

-- 
Richard Purdie
Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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