Re: Characters vanishing in the tty layer? (maybe related to [Bug#14388] keyboard under X with 2.6.31)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Oct 14 2009 - 10:55:33 EST




On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> I'm using 80f5069 or thereabouts, plus some powerpc patches. We also see
> the bug in 31, but not in 27.

Could you bisect it? Even if you don't bisect it _all_ the way, 27..31 is
a big range. Doing just a handful of bisections (say six or seven) would
cut down the number of commits from 47 thousand to somewhat more
manageable "hundreds of commits"... But obviously going all the way would
be better.

Linus
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