Bug#657098: [regression] bttv dvb_bt8xx bt878 hang on boot unless post: drm

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi again.

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Harry G. Coin wrote:

>> After installing the above mentioned three from sid, details below,
>> it didn't hang  (which maybe meant it worked, or maybe not, could be
>> the kernel change just changed the timing that wee little bit...).
>
> Excellent.  I wonder if this was fixed by some patch in the area of
> v2.6.35-rc2~7^2 (module: fix bne2 "gave up waiting for init of module
> libcrc32c", 2010-06-05).  If you have a chance to try
> 2.6.34-1~experimental.2 and 2.6.35~rc4-1~experimental.1 from
> http://snapshot.debian.org to check that, that would be very useful.

Just curious: did the fix stick?  Did you get a chance to try any
older versions to narrow down the range to search for the fix?

I'm curious mostly because it would allow us to fix this in squeeze.
If it would be more convenient to have a patch against squeeze to test
instead[*], let me know and I'll see what I can find.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[*] instructions for testing patched kernels are at
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official