Bug#841850: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686_4.7.8-1_i386.deb does not boot on Thinkpad T41

[Petra Ruebe-Pugliese <debml@prp.in-berlin.de>]

On Monday, 24 October 2016, at 14:35 Ben Hutchings (ben@decadent.org.uk) wrote:
[...]
> 
> OK, this is the same crash that someone else reported and I think I
> know which change triggered it (though not why).
> 
> Does the attached patch fix the crash?  (Instructions for rebuilding
> the package are at
> <https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official>.)
> 
> Ben.

 The third attempt to generate that patched kernel finally
 succeeded (doing the compilation overnight, with a large
 external harddisk as additional storage medium).

 I installed the resulting
   35M Oct 26 03:44 linux-image-4.7.0-1-686-unsigned_4.7.8-1a~test_i386.deb
 on one of the affected notebooks, and it booted flawlessly  :-)

     Petra