Re: help to bisect
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 18 2011 - 17:17:31 EST
First of all, please hit "reply-to-all" next time so that all recipients
can receive your mail and not find it by chance when looking thru the
new lkml messages.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:41:52PM -0400, James wrote:
> Here is what I did:
>
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.37.y.git
> $ cd linux-2.6.37.y
> $ git checkout v2.6.36
> build and boot kernel
what does that mean? Is .36 ok?
> $ cd linux-2.6.37.y
> $ git bisect start
> $ git bisect good v2.6.36
> $ git bisect bad v2.6.37.6
Also, is .37.6 bad?
>
> build and boot kernel
> git bisect good|bad
> repeat
>
> 3044100e58c84e133791c8b60a2f5bef69d732e4 is the first bad commit.
Which is a merge commit and it means that you most likely made a mistake
during bisection.
What is actually the problem you're experiencing with .37.6?
..
> How do I find out what change causes the problem?
> The problem causes my wireless card not to work.
Ah, here it is.
> Other people have similar cards that do work so the problem seems
> isolated to my hardware but kernel-2.6.36 works so I don't think my
> hardware is faulty.
Which card is that? (adding linux-wireless)
Please, describe in a very detailed way how your problem incarnates
itself: dmesg, error messages, what exactly do you do to trigger it?
Also, can you test whether 38.6 works for ya - it could've been fixed in
the meantime. You can also test .39 which will be released any minute
now.
I think that should be enough for now.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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