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Subject: Re: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive
	cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
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On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 19:29 +0100, Uwe Bugla wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> "The bug was introduced somewhere at the transition of 2.6.20 towards 2.6.20-git14."
> I fortunately had some git9 patch at home and found out that it is sane.
> In so far the floppy mount bug was introduced somewhen between 2.6.20-git10 and 2.6.20-git14.
> "I'm afraid that the most proactical (it spells "practical", Mr. Morton) way of fixing this is to ask you to run a git-bisect to find the changeset which introduced the regression."
> Until you aren't even ready to explain me the exact technique of bisecting I won't do it and I can't do it.

Feeding google "how to git bisect" returns the below as it's first hit.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html

<psyco-blather deleted>

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