i915 modeset memory corruption issues? (Fwd: Oops in ext3_block_to_path.isra.40+0x26/0x11b)

[Dave Airlie]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>> <#part sign=pgpmime>
>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:41:14 +0000, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We've had reports on 965GM in Fedora, maybe davej has the specific
>>> bug.
>>
>> Are these reports relatively recent, leading to a possible software bug
>> introduced in the last couple of releases?
>
> No I think they are since 0-day KMS reports.
>
> but its St Patricks day so really not a reliable info source for a
> couple of days :-)

I did however get a flashback in google to this:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2010-July/456636.html

Linus don't think we ever did work out why that worked, I wonder if we
lost something after that.
Dave.