Found a problem so what next?

[John Whitmore]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:36:25PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 05:34:32PM +0000, John Whitmore wrote:
> > I built and installed v4.4 on my laptop but Suspend no longer worked so I set
> > about doing a git bisect to find the source of the problem. I've never had
> > cause to use bisect before so if nothing else I'll have learned something. 
> > 
> > Anyhow got to an end point in git bisect of:
> > 
> > john at bamboo:> git bisect bad
> > Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps)
> > [b8b2c7d845d57f7a4b9f1f941f24728165e27626] base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain callbacks are called unconditionally
> > 
> > I was actually chuffed I got that far and it took a while as I was doing a
> > "make mrproper" each time. I sort of assumed that I could just bisect and do a
> > make, which would work out what it had to recompile, but then thought maybe
> > that was a bit of an assumption. Be a shame to do all that work and find out
> > you had to clean up a bit between builds.
> 
> You don't have to, a simple 'make oldconfig' and 'make' should do just
> fine.
> 
> > I'm sure that this problem has been found and a patch submitted by now as it
> > seems to have been from months ago. But assuming neither had occured and this
> > was a new discovery how do you check for a reported bug? Do you search mailing
> > list for that commit number, or a part of that commit number?
> 
> Yes, this bug has been found, and a fix was submitted, I just haven't
> taken it yet, sorry.  I will do so after 4.5-rc1 is out.  If you search
> the linux-kernel mailing list for:
> 	Subject: [PATCH] base/platform: Fix platform drivers with no probe callback (ex alarmtimer)
> 
> you can find the fix.
> 
> Sorry you hit this, I'll get it merged soon.
> 

Hey not at all, I'm glad I did hit the problem. I'm re-reading LDD for probably
the third time and soaking up a little bit more, before I start work on a USB
driver. I was glad of the distraction and happy to try see if I could find the
source of the problem. If I wasn't busy I might even try and see if I could
debug it and get my own fix, just for the exercise and learning. Who knows
maybe it'll be a slow weekend ;-)


> greg k-h