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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] X doesn't work with 2.6.33 (can't find any input
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:11:53PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM,  <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> > See Linus's complaints over the nouveau driver; it's the same
> > principle; something is really broken.
> 
> Not really, this is just somebody doing something stupid one would hope,
> 
> does lshal on both kernels give similiar results?

No, it's quite different.    See attached.

--- lshal-2.6.33	     2010-03-06 10:15:44.837265508 -0500
+++ lshal-2.6.32-git4	     2010-03-06 18:45:35.782582002 -0500
@@ -1,17 +1,2446 @@
 
-Dumping 23 device(s) from the Global Device List:
+Dumping 149 device(s) from the Global Device List:
 -------------------------------------------------
...


It looks like it's fixed as of 2.6.33-git10.  Hopefully whoever fixed
it will backport it to 2.6.33-STABLE, since this will seriously screw
up anyone wanting to use 2.6.33 at least on Ubuntu; I don't know about
other distributions.

					- Ted