From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (v2) (part 2) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:13:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20070127174230.GN6017@stusta.de> <20070128133344.214070@gmx.net> <1170051963.6454.7.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <20070128224834.37482553.akpm@osdl.org> <1170054495.6521.1.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:52285 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933247AbXA2HYK (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:24:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1170054495.6521.1.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Andrew Morton , Uwe Bugla , Adrian Bunk , rml@novell.com, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, cijoml@volny.cz, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, anton@samba.org, paulus@samba.org, livio@eecg.toronto.edu, petero2@telia.com, hch@lst.de, gd@spherenet.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Unfortunately, I'm git impaired. I am rummaging as we speak though. Ok, I'm personally heading to bed, but it rally should be as simple as - get the git tree in the first place - do git bisect good v2.6.19 git bisect bad v2.6.20-rc2 .. it will pick a point for you to try .. .. compile, boot, test .. "git bisect {good|bad}" depending on results - until (found) (Of course, you should check that -rc2 really is bad to make sure. I think that's what Uwe reported, though. And I don't think we've done anything after -rc2 that could impact this, so I don't doubt it). Linus From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org (smtp.osdl.org [65.172.181.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.osdl.org", Issuer "OSDL Hostmaster" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84792DDDEE for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:20:01 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:13:09 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Mike Galbraith Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc6: known unfixed regressions (v2) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <1170054495.6521.1.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Message-ID: References: <20070127174230.GN6017@stusta.de> <20070128133344.214070@gmx.net> <1170051963.6454.7.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <20070128224834.37482553.akpm@osdl.org> <1170054495.6521.1.camel@Homer.simpson.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andrew Morton , nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, petero2@telia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, livio@eecg.toronto.edu, Adrian Bunk , B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org, gd@spherenet.de, cijoml@volny.cz, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, rml@novell.com, Uwe Bugla , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Unfortunately, I'm git impaired. I am rummaging as we speak though. Ok, I'm personally heading to bed, but it rally should be as simple as - get the git tree in the first place - do git bisect good v2.6.19 git bisect bad v2.6.20-rc2 .. it will pick a point for you to try .. .. compile, boot, test .. "git bisect {good|bad}" depending on results - until (found) (Of course, you should check that -rc2 really is bad to make sure. I think that's what Uwe reported, though. And I don't think we've done anything after -rc2 that could impact this, so I don't doubt it). Linus