Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764145AbXJSPed (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755864AbXJSPeZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:25 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:47629 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755045AbXJSPeY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:34:08 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Mike Galbraith Cc: Samuel Thibault , LKML Subject: Re: [bisected][mismerge?] Re: [microcode] 2.6.23.git pulled this morning oopses loading P4 microcode Message-Id: <20071019083408.fafadb8d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1192789099.7389.31.camel@Homer.simpson.net> References: <1192681533.7147.5.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1192730198.7182.18.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <20071018223333.GD4153@implementation> <1192762138.6838.13.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1192789099.7389.31.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 38 On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:18:19 +0200 Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 04:49 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 23:33 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Mike Galbraith, le Thu 18 Oct 2007 19:56:38 +0200, a ?crit : > > > > The winner of a very long git bisect session: > > > > > > > > unicode diacritics support > > > > > > Uh, I fail to see how that could have an impact, I've again checked the > > > boundaries, it looks fine, please people have a look. > > > > I too was reluctant to believe the bisect result. But... > > Weeeell now, that skepticism is indeed well founded. It's dontdiff. A > diff of trees where defkeymap.c_shipped has been modified produces no > output. Once a working tree has been afflicted by using diff+dontdiff > to update it, even overwriting the entire tree via git-archive doesn't > lead to a good build unless you also touch defkeymap.c_shipped > afterward. In my case, the working tree remained buildable yet > thoroughly busted through a lengthy bisect and beyond. That bisect > positively identified... the victim. > > poo. Yes, that's bad. Sam has asked me to fix some dontdiff problems. I'll try to get to it soon. Other people can also update it.... --- ~Randy - 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/