Re: [PULL?] i915_bpo rebase to ~4.6-rc1

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/24/2016 06:33 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1560395
> 
> 	Hi
> 
>   This branch would update i915_bpo from an upstream prerelease tag to what
> will be in 4.6-rc1. The caveat is that while the module loads and works fine
> on Skylake, it fails on Kabylake with
> 
> i915_bpo: Unknown symbol pm_runtime_get_if_in_use (err 0)
> 
> and I've no idea why, since the commit to add that symbol is included and
> the kernel should have that.. but I've sent this anyway in case someone
> has better ideas on why it fails here...
> 
> --

That seems pretty weird. Are you sure you have linux-image-extra
installed on the Kabylake system ? I installed on a non-i915 system and
was able to modprobe the i915_bpo module without encountering any
missing symbols.

I am going to hold off on this pull request until you are a little more
sure of your bits.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com