On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:54:08 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:33:42AM +0200, Stephen Berman wrote: >> >> I guess I should report this to the kernel bug list? I searched that >> list for power-off issues and found only one report after the above >> commit, and it seems to be a different issue. It is rather surprising >> that my machine seems to be the only one with this problem. >> >> Steve Berman > > I was going to suggest you might try reverting that commit from > linus's current tree, and/or from current stable (i.e. save the > commit and then try patch -R if in the stable source), but it might > not revert cleanly. I suppose that linus's current tree (close to > 5.7-rc3) ought to be reasonably good, but YMMV. I guess that > pedantically that means testing current (and/or current 5.6 stable) > without the revert, to prove the problem is still there, and then > reverting to prove the problem is fixed - or else reporting that it > doesn't revert cleanly. In fact it doesn't revert cleanly, too much has changed in the interim. > At a minimum, I guess reverting it from the version you first > identified as 'bad' (5.2 ? I've trimmed too much) and proving that > the revert solves the problem. I haven't checked whether the patch reverts cleanly in the v5.2 source, but even if it does and results in powering off working normally (i.e. quickly) with that kernel, it doesn't seem like that would be significantly more informative than the result of the bisection. > iThen maybe just post to the three people who signed off on that > commit, with a Cc: to lkml ([email protected]), > summarising the problem (and your hardware) and giving the commit > you identified, with your detailed bisection results. > > Good luck! > > ĸen Thanks for the advice. Steve Berman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
