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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with bisect
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:37:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B76A7F.3000103@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806141233.3d8a43cc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

Sean wrote:
> 
> The directory "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211" is only introduced in
> commit v2.6.23-rc1-1621-gd05daff.   It didn't exist in v2.6.22.
> 
> You can see this with the command:
> 
>   $ git log -- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211
> 
> Where the last listed commit is d05daff.  So of course there will be many
> bisection points back to v2.6.22 where that directory just doesn't exist.
> A bit of digging with Git shows this history for most of the files in
> that directory:
> 
>   renamed in v2.6.23-rc1-1621 as bcm43xx-mac80211
>   renamed in v2.6.21-rc1-809 as mac80211
>   renamed in v2.6.17-rc2-357 as d80211/bcm43xx
>  Imported in v2.6.16-1725 as bcm43xx-d80211

Thanks for the response. Obviously the  difficulties were due to the structure of the tree. This 
chunk of code has had a varied history.

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-05 16:02 Problem with bisect Larry Finger
     [not found] ` <20070805145234.554bf671.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2007-08-05 19:24   ` Larry Finger
2007-08-05 19:44     ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-08-05 20:33       ` Larry Finger
2007-08-06 18:12     ` Sean
2007-08-06 18:37       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-08-07  1:50 ` Christian Couder
2007-08-07  2:53   ` Larry Finger
2007-08-07  5:26     ` Christian Couder

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