Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757286Ab1EMSrk (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 14:47:40 -0400 Received: from bsmtp4.bon.at ([195.3.86.186]:39521 "EHLO bsmtp.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219Ab1EMSri (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2011 14:47:38 -0400 Message-ID: <4DCD7CBE.9010409@kdbg.org> Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:47:26 +0200 From: Johannes Sixt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Lutomirski , Christian Couder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, git@vger.kernel.org, Shuang He Subject: Re: AAARGH bisection is hard (Re: [2.6.39 regression] X locks up hard right after logging in) References: <4DCD79A0.7000500@kdbg.org> In-Reply-To: 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: 758 Lines: 21 Am 13.05.2011 20:41, schrieb Linus Torvalds: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >> git bisect good v2.6.38 > > When you say that v2.6.38 is good, that means that everything that can > be reached from 2.6.38 is good. > > NOT AT ALL the same thing as "git bisect requires v2.6.38" would be. > > Think about it. It's the "reachable from v2.6.38" vs "cannot reach > v2.6.38" difference. That's a HUGE difference. Oops, you're right, I got it upside-down. Thanks, -- Hannes -- 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/