From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934224AbYEHW47 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 18:56:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762132AbYEHW4u (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 18:56:50 -0400 Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:10807 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760396AbYEHW4t convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 18:56:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 23:56:45 +0100 From: Ken Moffat To: Rene Herman Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: GIT bisection range errors Message-ID: <20080508225645.GA24725@deepthought> References: <48237CA0.4080001@keyaccess.nl> <20080508222545.GH22887@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <48238087.7000509@keyaccess.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48238087.7000509@keyaccess.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:36:55AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > On 09-05-08 00:25, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 12:20:16AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > >>Good day. > >> > >>I'm in a git bisect and am experiencing strangeness. I did a > >> > >>$ git checkout -b rc v2.6.26-rc1 > >>$ git bisect start > >>$ git bisect bad > >>$ git bisect good v2.6.25 > >> > >>Yet, during this I'm finding myself at 2.6.25-rc6 and 2.6.25-rc8 > >>as the last two results (both good...). > >> > >>Here's the BISECT_LOG upto this point. Is there anyone available > >>who understands this well enough to be able to say from this that > >>my tree is fubar? It should be a straight Linus' clone, and it's > >>always pulling without trouble. > >> > >>git-bisect start > >># bad: [2ddcca36c8bcfa251724fe342c8327451988be0d] Linux 2.6.26-rc1 > >>git-bisect bad 2ddcca36c8bcfa251724fe342c8327451988be0d > >># good: [4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f] Linux 2.6.25 > >>git-bisect good 4b119e21d0c66c22e8ca03df05d9de623d0eb50f > >># bad: [7ae44cfa7ab29b277691327e8de790d7b880722f] [ALSA] snd-powermac: > >>style awacs.s and awacs.h > >>git-bisect bad 7ae44cfa7ab29b277691327e8de790d7b880722f > >># good: [7cea51be4e91edad05bd834f3235b45c57783f0d] security: fix up > >>documentation for security_module_enable > >>git-bisect good 7cea51be4e91edad05bd834f3235b45c57783f0d > >># bad: [8f19ca1341a6d89bd96e2e69e6e10f46d3258089] x86: unify gfp masks > >>git-bisect bad 8f19ca1341a6d89bd96e2e69e6e10f46d3258089 > >># good: [f49e1aa133c2c9b74b5dfddca8863609bbda9086] [NETFILTER]: > >>nf_conntrack_sip: update copyright > >>git-bisect good f49e1aa133c2c9b74b5dfddca8863609bbda9086 > >># good: [0b18542b7f5379e052d2a3132be91185776e7ceb] [NET]: Sink IPv6 > >>menuoptions into its own submenu > >>git-bisect good 0b18542b7f5379e052d2a3132be91185776e7ceb > > > >Don't trust any dates you see in git. ;-) > > > >The last commit in your list was added to David's tree at around the > >time Linus released Linux 2.6.25-rc7. > > > >But David's tree was merged into Linus' tree after 2.6.25. > > > >So actually everything is fine. > > Well, thanks for the reply and I'm going forward for now, but the Makefile > is actually calling this 2.6.25-rc8. My next "git bisect good" after the > above landed me now after 2.6.25 according to the Makefile. It could just > be a tags issue I guess, where my tree is confused about what tag belongs > to v2.6.25? > > (new two lines in the log) > > # good: [ba380013b681e91e059f95b51002f8d43024b371] b43: Add fastpath to > b43_mac_suspend() > git-bisect good ba380013b681e91e059f95b51002f8d43024b371 > > Rene. I reported a similar thing at the beginning of April http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/2/390 - 2.6.25-rc1 bad, 2.6.24 good, git dropped me back at 2.6.24-rc4 (again, according to the top level Makefile). Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce