From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: Problem with bisect Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:37:51 -0500 Message-ID: <46B76A7F.3000103@lwfinger.net> References: <46B5F48D.7020907@lwfinger.net> <20070805145234.554bf671.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> <46B623D6.7070809@lwfinger.net> <20070806141233.3d8a43cc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Sean X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 06 20:38:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1II7Sx-0007Va-C0 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:38:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757124AbXHFSiD (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:38:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755503AbXHFSiC (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:38:02 -0400 Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.117]:40469 "EHLO mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751077AbXHFSiA (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 14:38:00 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.104] (cpe-72-129-173-253.kc.res.rr.com[72.129.173.253]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with ESMTP id <20070806183759113008uiide>; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 18:37:59 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070509) In-Reply-To: <20070806141233.3d8a43cc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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