Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 May 2011 10:20:54 +0200 | Subject | Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: [2.6.39 regression] X locks up hard right after logging in) | From | Christian Couder <> |
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On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote: > > OK, this sucks. In the course of bisecting this, I've hit two other > apparently unrelated bugs that prevent my from testing large numbers > of kernels. Do I have two questions: > > 1. Anyone have any ideas from looking at the log? > > It looks like most of what's left is network code, so cc netdev. > > 2. The !&$#@ bisection is skipping all over the place. I've seen > 2.6.37 versions and all manner of -rc's out of order. Linus, and > other people who like pontificating about git bisection: is there any > way to get the bisection to follow Linus' tree? I think that if > bisect could be persuaded to consider only changes that are reached by > following only the *first* merge parent all the way from the bad > revision to the good revision, then the bisection would build versions > that were at least good enough for Linus to pull and might have fewer > bisection-killing bugs. > > (This isn't a new idea [1], and git rev-list --bisect --first-parent > isn't so bad except that it doesn't bisect.)
Did you forget to put the reference [1] in your email? Was it this one you were thinking about:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165433/
?
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