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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm5
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:59:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.02.04.07.59.06.888460@smurf.noris.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060203000704.3964a39f.akpm@osdl.org>

Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:

> - If you hit a bug in -mm and it's not obvious which patch caused it, it
> is
>   most valuable if you can perform a bisection search to identify which
>   patch introduced the bug.  Instructions for this process are at
> 
>         http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt

You can also use the mm->git tree (at .../linux/kernel/git/smurf/
/linux-trees.git) and use "git bisect".

It'll be a bit slower, but the upside is that it's able to descend into
the git trees which Andrew has imported into mm as monolithic patches.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de
Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de
 - -
I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them.
		-- Isaac Asimov



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03  8:07 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2006-02-03 10:17 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Benoit Boissinot
2006-02-03 20:13   ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Benoit Boissinot
2006-02-03 20:36     ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2006-02-03 11:51 ` [-mm patch] Makefile: remove a tab from an empty line Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 20:57 ` [-mm patch] kernel/time/timeofday.c: make struct ts_interval static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:50   ` john stultz
2006-02-03 20:59 ` [-mm patch] kernel/timer.c: make some variables static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:02 ` [-mm patch] net/ipv4/fib_rules.c: make struct fib_rules static again Adrian Bunk
2006-02-04 23:51   ` David S. Miller
2006-02-03 21:09 ` [-mm patch] make some "struct clocksource" static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:12 ` [-mm patch] arch/i386/kernel/cpu/: make tons of functions static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:25 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5: drivers/ieee1394/oui O=... builds broken Adrian Bunk
2006-02-04  2:43   ` Jody McIntyre
2006-02-04  9:20     ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-04  9:08   ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-04  9:30     ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-04  9:31     ` Johannes Berg
2006-02-04  9:58       ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-06  4:31   ` Jody McIntyre
2006-02-04  7:59 ` Matthias Urlichs [this message]
2006-02-04  9:29 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-04  9:36   ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
     [not found] <20060203000704.3964a39f.akpm__33726.4416892596$1138954098$gmane$org@osdl.org>
2006-02-08  6:20 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Reuben Farrelly

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