Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:24:38 +0900
From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwlagn completely unusable with some AP since 2.6.31
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On Mo, 14 Jun 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I see the same issue, and I even tried the git bisect, but due to
> various issues in early boot / ACPI code in that merge window it's

Me, too, but as you said, hard to finish, it is getting weird when we
come down to the merge window.

Is there a way to restrict git bisect to consider *only* changes in 
a specific sub-directory (directories) ? That would help.

> impossible to finish it.  The ugly workaround for me is to always keep
> a ping running in the background, which keeps it from dropping the

I had the feeling that this helped a bit, but didn't explore it
in an organized way. Thanks for the tip.

Let's hope for the best

Norbert
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