Comment 28 for bug 1728238

On the face of it, I cannot see how this particular commit could in any way cause that other bug to arise. All it does is to allow the i915 driver to load a particular firmware file, and that too only if it's explicitly specified on the kernel command line.

I think bug 1777242 needs to be investigated further, to find the exact conditions under which it can be reliably replicated. The comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1777242/comments/8 (regarding an error with the qkl.ko module for QEMU), seems worth looking into.