From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965008AbWFARZ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964987AbWFARZ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:25:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52613 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965129AbWFARZZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:25:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:29:29 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andy Whitcroft Cc: mbligh@mbligh.org, mbligh@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1 Message-Id: <20060601102929.1f62d624.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <447F1702.3090405@shadowen.org> References: <447DEF49.9070401@google.com> <20060531140652.054e2e45.akpm@osdl.org> <447E093B.7020107@mbligh.org> <20060531144310.7aa0e0ff.akpm@osdl.org> <447E104B.6040007@mbligh.org> <447F1702.3090405@shadowen.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:34:10 +0100 Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Last time I tried to split search -mm1 and she was being a hideous pig, > I just couldn't get any bit of it to compile without the rest. You shouldn't bisect blindly. Looking at the series file (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc5/2.6.17-rc5-mm2/patch-series): ... add-scsi_add_host-failure-handling-for-nsp32.patch qla1280-fix-section-mismatch-warnings.patch bogus-disk-geometry-on-large-disks.patch bogus-disk-geometry-on-large-disks-warning-fix.patch megaraid_sas-switch-fw_outstanding-to-an-atomic_t.patch megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller.patch megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller-fix.patch ... megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller-fix.patch is a fix against megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller.patch, so if the bisection lands you on megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller.patch then obviously one should apply megaraid_sas-add-support-for-zcr-controller-fix.patch by hand as well. You'll often find great streams of similarly-named contiguous patches - you should apply either all of them or none of them. Otherwise you're testing a known-to-be-broken kernel which has an already-available fix ;) http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt describes the bisection technique I use. If you're using git-bisect, well, try to have a nice day anyway. > Will try and track this down with the new -mm. Would be great, thanks.