[GIT PULL] Networking for v6.16-rc6 (follow up)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 12:53, Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Let me keep digging but other than the netlink stuff the rest doesn't
> stand out..

Oh well. I think I'll just have to go back to bisecting this thing.
I've tried to do that several times, and it has failed due to being
too flaky, but I think I've learnt the signs to look out for better
too.

For example, the first few times I was just looking for "not able to
log in", because I hadn't caught on to the fact that sometimes the
failures simply didn't hit something very important.

This clearly is timing-sensitive, and it's presumably hardware-dependent too.

And it could easily be that some bootup process gets stuck on
something entirely unrelated. Some random driver change - sound, pin
control, whatever - might then just end up having odd interactions.

I don't see any issues on my laptop. And considering how random the
behavior problems are, it could have been going on for a while without
me ever realizing it (plus I was running a distro kernel for at least
a few days without even noticing that I wasn't running my own build
any more).

I was hoping it was some known problem, because I'm not sure how
successful a bisect will be.

I guess I had nothing better to do this weekend anyway....

                  Linus