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SubjectRe: help with git bisecting a bug 16376: random - possibly Radeon DRM KMS related - freezes
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Am Mittwoch 01 September 2010 schrieb Paolo Ornati:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:53:43 +0200
>
> Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > Obviously I am not interested in kernels prior 2.6.33. Should I just
> > do a "git bisect good" without trying the kernel or is there some
> > other remedy?
>
> No. Git is right in asking you to test that commit: you are ignoring
> branches and merges.
>
> Example
[...]
> So the commit you are testing it's like "commit A": it was done before
> (in time) v2.6.33, on a kernel based on v2.6.33-rc2, but was merged in
> Linus' tree _after_ v2.3.33.
>
> So this this behaviour is normal :)

Thanks. That explains it. So I compile this kernel and continue bisecting
as usual.

Ciao,
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