Re: [Regression?] Linux 5.19-rc5 gets stuck on boot, not rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 11:21 AM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wild guess, I'm not involved at all in any of the following, I just
> noticed it and thought it might be worth mentioning:
>
> I heard Fedora rawhide added this patch to solve a boot problem that
> sounded similar to yours:
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/489982/

Yes, this looks likely, and matches that "starts in 5.19-rc5" since
the offending commit came in as

  ee7a69aa38d8 ("fbdev: Disable sysfb device registration when
removing conflicting FBs")

so that does look like a likely cause.

              Linus