Re: Finding what change broke ARM

[Alecs King]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:19:51AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> When building current git for ARM, I see:
> 
>   CC      arch/arm/mm/consistent.o
> arch/arm/mm/consistent.c: In function `dma_free_coherent':
> arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:357: error: `mem_map' undeclared (first use in this function)
> arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:357: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> arch/arm/mm/consistent.c:357: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [arch/arm/mm/consistent.o] Error 1
> 
> How can I find what change elsewhere in the kernel tree caused this
> breakage?
> 
> With bk, you could ask for a per-file revision history of the likely
> candidates, and then find the changeset to view the other related
> changes.
> 
> With git... ?  We don't have per-file revision history so...

Wouldnt a 'git-whatchanged -p <candidates>' help?


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Alecs King
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