Older bk snapshots not found on www.kernel.org (fwd)

Older bk snapshots not found on www.kernel.org (fwd)

[Martijn Uffing]

Ave people.

I know www.xx.kernel.org has nice bk snapshots in the form 
of patch-2.5.x-bkx.gz  However,they are only against the latest linus 
release. The problem is I have a 100% repeatable OOPS in 2.5.62 while 
2.5.61 worked.  Before I send in a bug report I want to nail it down to 
which bk snapshot starts failing to make it a little easier for the 
bughunters to find the bug.  Is there any website/ftp whatever which 
collects older bk snapshots?


And if the maintainer of www.kernel.org reads this. May I suggest to keep 
the bk snaphots of let's say the last 4/5 linus releases. Then people like 
me who test the kernel a couple of days after release can start a bug hunt 
and test bk snaphots from the past.

Greetz
Mu

Re: Older bk snapshots not found on www.kernel.org (fwd)

[Andrew Morton]

Martijn Uffing <mp3project@cam029208.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
>
> 
> Ave people.
> 
> I know www.xx.kernel.org has nice bk snapshots in the form 
> of patch-2.5.x-bkx.gz  However,they are only against the latest linus 
> release. The problem is I have a 100% repeatable OOPS in 2.5.62 while 
> 2.5.61 worked.  Before I send in a bug report I want to nail it down to 
> which bk snapshot starts failing to make it a little easier for the 
> bughunters to find the bug.  Is there any website/ftp whatever which 
> collects older bk snapshots?

I just run a script to snarf them.

I've uploaded the 2.5.61->2.5.62 snapshots to

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.61/snapshots/

each one of these is a diff against 2.5.61.  If you can narrow it down to the
offending one, that would be a big start.

Re: Older bk snapshots not found on www.kernel.org (fwd)

[Martijn Uffing]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Martijn Uffing <mp3project@cam029208.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Ave people.
> > 
> > I know www.xx.kernel.org has nice bk snapshots in the form 
> > of patch-2.5.x-bkx.gz  However,they are only against the latest linus 
> > release. The problem is I have a 100% repeatable OOPS in 2.5.62 while 
> > 2.5.61 worked.  Before I send in a bug report I want to nail it down to 
> > which bk snapshot starts failing to make it a little easier for the 
> > bughunters to find the bug.  Is there any website/ftp whatever which 
> > collects older bk snapshots?
> 
> I just run a script to snarf them.
> 
> I've uploaded the 2.5.61->2.5.62 snapshots to
> 
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.61/snapshots/
> 
> each one of these is a diff against 2.5.61.  If you can narrow it down to the
> offending one, that would be a big start.
> 

Thanx!
The hunt has started :)

Greetz Mu

Re: Older bk snapshots not found on www.kernel.org (fwd)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302220158540.16168-100000@cam029208.student.utwente.nl>
By author:    Martijn Uffing <mp3project@cam029208.student.utwente.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> And if the maintainer of www.kernel.org reads this. May I suggest to keep 
> the bk snaphots of let's say the last 4/5 linus releases. Then people like 
> me who test the kernel a couple of days after release can start a bug hunt 
> and test bk snaphots from the past.
> 

Don't ask me -- I don't deal with that (in fact, I *couldn't*, because
of the asinine BK license.)

	-hpa


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