Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc4

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Mar 10 2008 - 09:11:48 EST


On Monday, 10 of March 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> >
> > aeriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx said:
> > > torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> > >> I think we do want the bisect run here.
> > >> My worry is that this is likely very timing-sensitive, so when it starts
> > >> failing it might not be because of the commit that actually introduces the
> > >> bug, but because some other timing changed, but with some luck that won't
> > >> be the case.
> >
> > > I'm on it. Slow machine. Household's router, 4000 versions to go...
> >
> > The bisect came up with this:
> >
> > 18a056feccabdfa9764016a615121b194828bc72 is first bad commit
> > commit 18a056feccabdfa9764016a615121b194828bc72
>
> Hmm, this is the first commit _after_ the previous "guilty"
> commit 852738f39258deafb3d89c187cb1a4050820d555 so it just
> can't be the "real bad" one...

Well, would that be practical to prepare a patch reverting this commit
and whatever depends on it so that Anders can verify it?

Rafael
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