Comment 24 for bug 1722478

@ kaihengfeng

So i did the bisecting as you described (thanks for that!) and I hope that i did everything right. For the questions during the config i always just pressed enter so that the default choice is used.
It's the first time i did this so please be skeptical with my findings!

So after a hours of building kernels, i got the following results:

first bad commit: [0be75179df5e20306528800fc7c6a504b12b97db] Merge tag 'driver-core-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

To verify the result i booted the default kernel and removed all self build kernels. Afterwards
i checkout the last good commit (according to the bisect log):

 $ git checkout 523aa3586ffb1fc11a9bf88f77ebaf71a15eb998

and build a kernel and tested this -> is working

Then the same with the first bad commit:

 $ git checkout 0be75179df5e20306528800fc7c6a504b12b97db

again build a kernel and tested this -> not working.

What i find strange is, if i count the number of commits betweens these two hashes i get the following:

 $ git rev-list 0be75179df5e20306528800fc7c6a504b12b97db ^523aa3586ffb1fc11a9bf88f77ebaf71a15eb998 --count
 8860

I thought bisecting would give me more precisely the wrong commit? So what are the next steps?

@ fgod1983/ghisvail
    better only use the gernic parts and not the lowlatency stuff, for example i only download:

    - linux-headers-4.11.12-041112_4.11.12-041112.201707210350_all.deb
    - linux-headers-4.11.12-041112-generic_4.11.12-041112.201707210350_amd64.deb
    - linux-image-4.11.12-041112-generic_4.11.12-041112.201707210350_amd64.deb

    into one new folder and then used

      $sudo dpkg -i *.deb

    in this folder. However, non default kernels mean you have to update the kernel manually, so maybe default kernel and as described above

      $ sudo modprobe -r psmouse
      $ sudo modprobe psmouse

    is the better choice in the meantime (or use ubuntu lts)