From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753793AbXLDMRM (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:17:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752177AbXLDMQ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:16:56 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:55563 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752435AbXLDMQz (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:16:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:16:18 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Bob Tracy Cc: Michael Cree , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers , Greg KH Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha Message-ID: <20071204121618.GA26132@elte.hu> References: <6A73BEE8-9D45-4B75-8756-3008A4B1FDF4@orcon.net.nz> <20071203011732.2CEABDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071203011732.2CEABDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.3 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.3 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 0.2 SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION Attempt to obfuscate words in Subject: -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0001] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Bob Tracy wrote: > Finally got back in town. Starting the git-bisect process. I've got > a relatively slow network connection, and the PWS 433au isn't exactly > what I would call "fast" by modern standards, so bear with me while I > get things set up and crank through this. The clone of the 2.6 tree > will take several more hours to finish downloading. I anticipate the > best pace I'll be able to manage after that is two iterations in a 24- > hour period. once you are done with the download of the initial cloned git repository (which is 200MB+), all the bisection steps will be local and you'll be only limited by kernel rebuild speed and by bootup and testing speed, not by network bandwidth. ( once you have the cloned repository i'd suggest for you to keep it - that way you can track susequent kernels via "git-pull" and it uses a very network-efficient delta protocol. ) Ingo