Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754413AbYLBTpb (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:45:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754480AbYLBTpM (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:45:12 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:27139 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754497AbYLBTpJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:45:09 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nqjJSgazKIlA78WzjJn+5tuCS1okFnNBKMVKNYiis9icNm9UKpCp5U6YTcuCjLm5NR a20Glx5AGCSTiIWjEeF3Uc0kHWhDMvFcbEjBhmCGBwENwzeQ0m1zJUfYdEzb8ImQG/Si 2ReD28aoiTWJwnzYy5Jc8U7IerG/hyOdicwVA= Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:45:03 +0100 From: Alejandro Riveira =?UTF-8?B?RmVybsOhbmRleg==?= To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dmitry Baryshkov , Alistair John Strachan , "Michael B. Trausch" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7 Message-ID: <20081202204503.57363502@varda> In-Reply-To: References: <20081202131442.42e7df48@varda> <20081202165637.09984819@varda> <20081202194907.4eaffc0a@varda> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1734 Lines: 58 El Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:23:42 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds escribió: > > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: > > > > Here you go > > > > [alex@varda:kernel/linux-2.6]$ git bisect bad > > 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d is first bad commit > > Excellent. One last step - can you verify that just reverting this commit > makes your problems go away? > > IOW, just do > > git bisect reset > > to get out of bisect mode, and then do > > git revert 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d Well i already sent the result of the revert on another mail; it did not help :( I tried again with what i thought was my "good" commit and the bug is there too :/ could it be that something changed in userspace[1] between the day i installed the 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 and today that make this bug trigger? i dunno Next step is try to find an "actually good" kernel and bisect again sigh... 2.6.27.6 seems to work ok > > and check that the end result is all good? > > That's just to double-check that the revert is sufficient, but also > because "git bisect" is very sensitive to false information (ie if it > happens that a bug sometimes is not entirely repeatable, then a single > wrong "git bisect bad/good" will result in the pinpointed commit being > possibly totally the wrong one). > > And Al - can you double-check that commit? > > Linus [1] distro updates -- 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/