From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from web23104.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([217.146.189.44]:37550 "HELO web23104.mail.ird.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752143AbYKLBkZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:40:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:40:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Hin-Tak Leung Reply-To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: a couple of small bugs in compat-wireless -- libertas To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "compat-masters@lists.madwifi.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , dwmw2@infradead.org, dcbw@redhat.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, tim.gardner@canonical.com In-Reply-To: <43e72e890811111702x7b817c4bpdeed5acf39b2a5fd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-ID: <33409.76636.qm@web23104.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (sfid-20081112_024037_813002_E00AFAEA) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --- On Wed, 12/11/08, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: Luis R. Rodriguez > > OK for your issue you can try this patch. > > This patch should actually be useless to you as you > probably are just > downloading the tarball.. so just download the latest > tarball, I just > regenerated it with the patches applied. Thanks for doing this - I actually do both: I have local git-clones of compat-wireless and and wireless-testing, which I use for checking out the "latest and greatest". However, to hunt down a regression which turned out to happen about 20 days ago, I had to roll back both of them and it was getting a bit painful to roll them back in sync, so I downloaded two whole months' worth of daily tarballs and bisected the "old fashion way" until I got within a day, then I read the tags off two daily snapshots and use the git-clone to spit out the 48 commits within that day. Some of the 48 are obviously irrelevant so it narrows it down to under 20 probables, and just a few obvious candidates. Then back to one of the snapshots and try out the obvious candidates; found the commit which breaks and verify that it breaks git-clone HEAD, etc. So it was going back and forth between the daily tarballs and the git-clones. Thanks for compat-wireless - it takes about 1/2 hour to build a snapshot (I just worked out how to edit the Makefile to skip some bits I don't need, so it has gone quicker), but it is better than building a whole new kernel... and the best thing about it is that I don't have to reboot, just losing connectivity briefly (hopefully) to swap and try new snapshots. Hin-Tak