Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757159AbYLaVnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:43:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751413AbYLaVnK (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:43:10 -0500 Received: from 1010ds2-suoe.0.fullrate.dk ([90.184.90.115]:27386 "EHLO swampdragon.chaosbits.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191AbYLaVnJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:43:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:43:06 +0100 (CET) From: Jesper Juhl To: Andrey Vul cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.28: BUG in r8169 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1569 Lines: 41 On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andrey Vul wrote: > trigger: wget 192.168.1.42/jdk-6-sdk-docs.zip > eth0 speed grinds to zero in a few seconds > IIRC r8169 worked fine in 2.6.27.8 > Anybody want to assist me with my first git bisect? > There is lots of documentation, tutorials and howto documents etc on git bisect online. Here are a few: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2006/01/using-git-bisect-to-find-buggy-kernel-patches/ http://kerneltrap.org/node/11753 http://jbowes.dangerouslyinc.com/2007/02/18/git-bisect-a-practical-example-with-yum/ http://desprofundis.blogspot.com/2008/06/git-bisect-instructions.html http://elinux.org/Notes_On_Git_Bisect#bisect Mostly it's as simple as install git clone (usually) Linus' tree $ git bisect start $ git bisect bad v[bad-version] $ git bisect goot v[good-version] git now checks out a version to test, copy in your config, run make oldconfig, copile, test, then run $ git bisect [good|bad] depending on the result of the test and repeat with the next version git spits out until git tells you what the bad commit is. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- 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/