2003-02-27 03:04:15

by Martijn Uffing

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Subject: Re: Older bk snapshots not found on www.kernel.org

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Martijn Uffing <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ave people.
> >
> > I know http://www.xx.kernel.org has nice bk snapshots in the form
> > of patch-2.5.x-bkx.gz However,they are only against the latest linus
> > release. The problem is I have a 100% repeatable OOPS in 2.5.62 while
> > 2.5.61 worked. Before I send in a bug report I want to nail it down to
> > which bk snapshot starts failing to make it a little easier for the
> > bughunters to find the bug. Is there any website/ftp whatever which
> > collects older bk snapshots?
>
> I just run a script to snarf them.
>
> I've uploaded the 2.5.61->2.5.62 snapshots to
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.61/snapshots/
>
> each one of these is a diff against 2.5.61. If you can narrow it down to the
> offending one, that would be a big start.
>

Ave

I downloaded the different csets and compiled them. However,before
that was finished and I could test them Trond posted some patch on the
mailing list that fixed my OOPS.(my OOPS was nfsroot related)
Anyway thanx for the csets and the quick respons ,next time I got a Oops I
know where to look for the csets. The next bug is mine to hunt :)

Greetz Mu