Hello Tim, On 5/9/22 16:01, public@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Thanks for this patch. Do you think this can be backported to LTS 5.17.y and You are welcome. > 5.15.y, which are still buggy? It's not a big deal for me but others might > profit. > > Background: > The patch solves a regression from 5.17.1 to 5.17.2 or 5.15.32 and > 5.15.33 I was about to report. On my Thinkpad T570, I got random "BUG", "Oops" > or even panics when during booting with efifb and plymouthd (and then sometimes > also problems when shutting down because). I had bisected the issue to commit > 27599aacbaef. I could provide more info but I don't think it's necessary given > that either aafa025c76dcc7d1a8c8f0bdefcbe4eb480b2f6a or your better patch now > fixes the issue (I tested both, both work for me). > The patches to fix the fbdev hot-unplug regression will get merged in mainline soon and since all have a Fixes tag, they should get picked for stable as well. -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Linux Engineering Red Hat
