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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@gmail.com>
To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: help with git bisecting a bug 16376: random - possibly Radeon DRM KMS related - freezes
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 20:47:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901204716.775e9cfd@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008312153.45792.Martin@lichtvoll.de>

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:53:43 +0200
Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:

> Obviously I am not interested in kernels prior 2.6.33. Should I just do a 
> "git bisect good" without trying the kernel or is there some other remedy? 

No. Git is right in asking you to test that commit: you are ignoring
branches and merges.

Example
========

Linus Tree	Usb Tree

v2.6.33-rc2
|          \
|           | commit A (version is v2.6.33-rc2)
|           | commit B ( " )
v2.6.33     | commit C ( " )
|        __/
|     __/
|  __/
|_/
X <--- MERGE

So the commit you are testing it's like "commit A": it was done before
(in time) v2.6.33, on a kernel based on v2.6.33-rc2, but was merged in
Linus' tree _after_ v2.3.33.

So this this behaviour is normal :)

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.35.4 on x86_64

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-01 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 19:53 help with git bisecting a bug 16376: random - possibly Radeon DRM KMS related - freezes Martin Steigerwald
2010-08-31 22:39 ` Ken Moffat
2010-09-01 16:10   ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-01 18:13     ` Ken Moffat
2010-09-01 18:47 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2010-09-01 19:26   ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-05  7:53   ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-05 12:20     ` Paolo Ornati
2010-09-05 13:25       ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-07  2:51     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-09 14:18       ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-10 11:55         ` Florian Mickler
2010-09-10 13:49           ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-09-10 15:53             ` Theodore Tso
2010-09-10 16:18               ` Martin Steigerwald

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