Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755238AbZC3P00 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:26:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751293AbZC3P0R (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:26:17 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.226]:39547 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013AbZC3P0Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:26:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=usABGc9vpKPMiNDP61s/cOqlOZ5GlqIxJnikabL8FbnRGqmSNsNX/DMofHVZWUP6Tu 6DiuFxOP/agRS+T4RC31FS19PRVi3VpvGQUJiiLr7QMF8YH09H5Z8uG9Msjf8Gkjk+i9 qLeb9k/4sUWNBJEwlJmQzrlOmk46pjeGERI0U= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200903301357.17076.alistair@devzero.co.uk> References: <9b1675090903291904g7eca965eydb1aa3f852a1b91c@mail.gmail.com> <9b1675090903292155q6d221da1q6d19b7bca9cbe4e6@mail.gmail.com> <9b1675090903300033y65dd4bc5td9157de735a76dd9@mail.gmail.com> <200903301357.17076.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:26:13 -0600 Message-ID: <9b1675090903300826s2ce361e5s1134e13507b0399@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.29 on MacBook 2,1 fails to reboot From: "Trenton D. Adams" To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: "Morten P.D. Stevens" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 31 On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Monday 30 March 2009 08:33:06 Trenton D. Adams wrote: >> >> And, if I mark the 2.6.27 one as bad, it just remains on 2.6.27. > > Don't worry about the kernel version it generates. Git bisections traverse > merged branches, including those that weren't rebased before being merged (in > fact the preferred work flow). I usually add "-bisect" to CONFIG_LOCALVERSION > so I can isolate my work in progress bisection from system kernels. > > You can trust git to involve only relevant commits between your initial "good" > and "bad" markers; don't add more unless you have to. Sometimes you may need > to "shift" the bisection midpoint if you encounter build breakage. You should > be able to find comments Linus made on the subject by searching the LKML > archive for "git bisect visualize". > > -- > Cheers, > Alistair. > Okay, so are you saying that switching back to 2.6.27 is okay, because the patch that caused this problem may have been created in 2.6.27 (as a patch to the released version perhaps), not applied to 2.6.28, and then applied to 2.6.29? -- 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/