From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751201AbVLWBHm (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:07:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbVLWBHm (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:07:42 -0500 Received: from thing.hostingexpert.com ([67.15.235.34]:34498 "EHLO thing.hostingexpert.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751201AbVLWBHm (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:07:42 -0500 Message-ID: <43AB4DDC.90505@m1k.net> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:07:40 -0500 From: Michael Krufky User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "P. Christeas" CC: Mauro Chehab , Andrew Morton , Linux and Kernel Video , lkml Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc6: known regressions in the kernel Bugzilla References: <1135291436.14685.7.camel@localhost> <43AB2EDF.6030207@linuxtv.org> <200512230121.48882.p_christ@hol.gr> In-Reply-To: <200512230121.48882.p_christ@hol.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - thing.hostingexpert.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - m1k.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org P. Christeas wrote: >On Friday 23 December 2005 12:55 am, you wrote: > > >>>Christeas, >>> >>> Between 2,6,13 and 2.6.14-rc1 we had about 220 v4l patches. It would >>>help more if you get v4l CVS tree and try to identify the broken patch. >>>there weren't so many patches for cx2388x. I suspect it might be some >>>changes at tda9887, cx88-cards or cx88-tvaudio (the latest is the more >>>likely). >>> >>> >>Actually, a -git bisection test is even easier, less work involved, and >>will point you to the exact patch that caused the regression. >> >>http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/isolate-bugs-with-bis >>ect.txt >> >>Cheers, >>Michael Krufky >> >> >> >I just discovered 'bisect', too, and are using it. > >Andrew, it would be nice to have a 'limited' bisect when whe know which >subsystem we are narrowing to: >git bisect start drivers/media/video/cx88/ >Theoretically speaking, I shouldn't even rebuild but the module alone.. > > No, you're incorrect. In many cases, modules from a given subsystem can break due to a change elsewhere in the kernel. Did you drop the list cc's on purpose? (re-added) Regards, Mike Krufky