lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2006]   [Jun]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: 2.6.17-rc5-mm1
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:34:10 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> 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.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2006-06-01 19:27    [W:0.114 / U:0.164 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site