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From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Paolo Ornati <ornati@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: help with git bisecting a bug 16376: random - possibly Radeon DRM KMS related - freezes
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:26:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201009012126.48174.Martin@lichtvoll.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100901204716.775e9cfd@gmail.com>

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Am Mittwoch 01 September 2010 schrieb Paolo Ornati:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:53:43 +0200
> 
> Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > Obviously I am not interested in kernels prior 2.6.33. Should I just
> > do a "git bisect good" without trying the kernel or is there some
> > other remedy?
> 
> No. Git is right in asking you to test that commit: you are ignoring
> branches and merges.
> 
> Example
[...]
> So the commit you are testing it's like "commit A": it was done before
> (in time) v2.6.33, on a kernel based on v2.6.33-rc2, but was merged in
> Linus' tree _after_ v2.3.33.
> 
> So this this behaviour is normal :)

Thanks. That explains it. So I compile this kernel and continue bisecting 
as usual.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 19:53 help with git bisecting a bug 16376: random - possibly Radeon DRM KMS related - freezes Martin Steigerwald
2010-08-31 22:39 ` Ken Moffat
2010-09-01 16:10   ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-01 18:13     ` Ken Moffat
2010-09-01 18:47 ` Paolo Ornati
2010-09-01 19:26   ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2010-09-05  7:53   ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-05 12:20     ` Paolo Ornati
2010-09-05 13:25       ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-07  2:51     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-09 14:18       ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-10 11:55         ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 13:49           ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-10 15:53             ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-10 16:18               ` Martin Steigerwald

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