Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix regression on CIK (v2)

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:48:18PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> From: Grigori Goronzy <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> This fix was written against drm-next, but when it was
> >> backported to 4.5 as a stable fix, the driver internal
> >> structure change was missed.  Fix that up here to avoid
> >> a hang due to waiting for the wrong sequence number.
> >>
> >> v2: agd: fix up commit message
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Grigori Goronzy <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> The code is correct for 4.6, this fix should be applied to
> >> 4.5 and older stable kernels.
> >
> > What is the patch in 4.6 that made it "correct"?  I would much rather
> > take that than something else.
> 
> It's correct as is for 4.6.  I cherry-picked it out of my drm-next
> tree into 4.5 since it was a bug fix, but missed the internal driver
> structure change in drm-next that was not in 4.5.

I'm sorry, I don't understand at all what you mean here :(

What changed between 4.5.0 and 4.6-rc1 that made 4.5 "broken"?  What
fixed it in 4.6-rc1?

totally confused,

greg k-h
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