Re: Confused - bisecting wireless-testing

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:56:54AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM, John W. Linville
> <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:27:06PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> 04:23  * mcgrof is confused, I just did a git bisect -i on
> >> wireless-testing on some patch on Fri Jul 2 00:09:49 2010  and ended
> >> up with a 2.6.34 top level
> >>           Makefile
> >> 04:23 < mcgrof> it was git rebase -i ba17bc5e55ba541d2a8765fca53b6883b667ab21
> >> 04:23 < mcgrof> eh
> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> how am I supposed to bisect wl now
> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> the odd thing though is that the top commit is ancient
> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/242077/
> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> but the other ones are OK
> >>
> >> I realize we should use wireless-2.6.git to bisect stable but I need
> >> to bisect against recent patches that spans different master- tags
> >> from you, I figured git bisecting wireless-testing would work now that
> >> you are using a different method to move your tree forward but am I
> >> wrong? Should I only bisect between master tags still?
> >
> > wireless-testing is a nasty mess when it comes to bisection.
> > I am considering a one-time rebase of wireless-testing after the
> > next -rc1, now that the current process is working reasonably well.
> > wireless-testing will continue to have a messy history, but it should
> > be a bit less nasty after a rebase.
> >
> > As for right now, it sounds like you should just use wireless-next-2.6
> > instead?
> 
> Oh OK, didn't realize that was bisectable, thanks. Also was unsure if
> I'd get other subsystems's -next components. Is wireless-next.git just
> the -next bits for 802.11 or does it also suck up net-next?

Usually just the wireless bits, but I did just pull the bluetooth stuff
(which included some net-next stuff).

John
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