Re: How to report kernel panic in 4.4.x

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 04:33:38PM +0200, Matthias B. wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:12:54 +0200
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > All of the stable trees are here:
> > 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/
> > you want the linux-4.4.y branch to work off of.
> > 
> > All of the kernels releases are tagged, so you can start with v4.4.147
> > as the good entry for 'git bisect'.
> 
> I've never used git bisect on the kernel. Can I simply do "make" for
> each step or do I need to "make mrproper" every time?

'make oldconfig' and then 'make' should be just fine.  But add '-j10' or
so (the number of your cpus*2), so the build goes faster.

thanks,

greg k-h