From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: git-bisect problem Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:56:20 -0800 Message-ID: <20060213165620.11ec6051.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060213002502.5c23122c.akpm@osdl.org> <7virrj1v44.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060213013205.4ba47836.akpm@osdl.org> <7vbqxb1sho.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060213021917.742b2b10.akpm@osdl.org> <7v8xsezsni.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 14 01:57:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8oVM-00054l-Au for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:57:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030340AbWBNA5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:57:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030344AbWBNA5S (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:57:18 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:10963 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030340AbWBNA5R (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:57:17 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1E0vDDZ006450 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:57:13 -0800 Received: from bix (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id k1E0vCkE016701; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:57:12 -0800 To: Junio C Hamano In-Reply-To: <7v8xsezsni.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Sorry, this question is what I do not quite understand. > > Here is my understanding of the situation. > > - Betweeen 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc2 a bug you are chasing was > introduced. You know rc1 works fine but rc2 is bad. > > - You suspect that changes introduced by merging Jeff's tree > at some point between -rc1 and -rc2 may be causing this. > > Am I totally misunderstanding the situation? yup ;) The bug is in Jeff's tree only (git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git#ALL) so I wanted to perform the bisection on the git-netdev-all branch. So I did a `git log git-netdev-all' and looked at where the ipw2200 changes were and then decided that the 2.6.16-rc1 and 2.6.16-rc2 commits straddled those changes nicely, so I chose those as the bisection starting points.