2b5d1c29f6c4 ("drm/nouveau/disp: PIOR DP uses GPIO for HPD, not PMGR AUX interrupts")

[Karol Herbst]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 4:04 PM Thorsten Leemhuis
<regressions at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>
> On 09.08.23 15:13, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >
> > If this can't be fixed quickly, I suppose it's safer to revert it from
> > 6.4.y for now.  6.5 is still being cooked, but 6.4.x is already in
> > wide deployment, hence the regression has to be addressed quickly.
>

feel free to send reverts to mainline and add my r-by tage to it and I
can push those changes up. Sadly those patches fixed another
use-after-free, but it seems like we have to take another shot unless
somebody does have time to look into it promptly.

> Good luck with that. To quote
> https://docs.kernel.org/process/handling-regressions.html :
>
> ```
> Regarding stable and longterm kernels:
>
> [...]
>
> * Whenever you want to swiftly resolve a regression that recently also
> made it into a proper mainline, stable, or longterm release, fix it
> quickly in mainline; when appropriate thus involve Linus to fast-track
> the fix (see above). That's because the stable team normally does
> neither revert nor fix any changes that cause the same problems in mainline.
> ```
>
> Note the "normally" in there, so there is a chance.
>
> Ciao, Thorsten
>