Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756942Ab0DNVcO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:32:14 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f220.google.com ([209.85.219.220]:59754 "EHLO mail-ew0-f220.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755933Ab0DNVcM (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:32:12 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=RClfB/SxbkvmfpBj81SmBa0sqNyKt1zOXwlKRmjFJGydSvC0t22g6UpkW+Xey3yWGF l5NFANiGfj5GeZ/wM8g73YgcdodflA30VjXIkFY5zhuvfYEevtD+iksDJsi04pDXml+9 AnUJZr95AOPPF5gqEwbqAIHql9kdjif+pkM2Y= From: Harald Arnesen To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Tobias , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.34-rc4 References: <4BC57F10.8080002@plzk.org> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:32:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:46:11 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <874ojd3elk.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) 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: 1085 Lines: 26 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Tobias wrote: >> -rc4 does not boot on my MacBook v2.1. Unfortunately, I can not add much info >> on what happens since it's all happening really fast. Last thing I can really >> see is that KMS takes over (?), outputs a few lines which look ok, last line >> being something about ata. Here the boot stops. > > The absolutely most helpful thing you could do (and it really isn't that > complex, just somewhat time-consuming) is to do a "git bisect" to figure > out exactly where it started. As a non-kernel-hacker, I agree fully. "git bisect" is the best error diagnosing tool ever invented. I have on two occations bisected kernel problems with the help of the kernel community, and I have really been impressed by the help I have got. -- Hilsen Harald. -- 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/