[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] RFC drm/i915: Add a sunset clause to GPU hang logging

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Oct 17 14:10:10 UTC 2016


On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 03:33:43PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> On pe, 2016-10-14 at 14:44 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > If the kernel is old, more than a few releases old, chances are that the
> > user is using an old kernel for a good reason, despite there being GPU
> > hangs. After 180days since driver release stop suggesting that they
> > should send those reports upstream.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> Maybe we could even explicitly state that bugs should be reported to
> the distro bugzilla because of running an old kernel?

Distro's already shut down our warnings "because too much noise", I don't
think that's valuable.

Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
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Daniel Vetter
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