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Re: current git kernel has strange problems during bisect

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CBChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Date
Jan 11, 2009, 21:39 UTC
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Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2009 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
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> Well, you don't actually have to mark that semi-random one as good either. 
> What you can do is to just mark anything that _only_ contains fs/btrfs as 
> good. IOW, you don't have to know the magic number - you just have to be 
> told that "oh, if you only have btrfs files, and you're not actively 
> bisecting a btrfs bug, just do 'git bisect good' and continue".
That should work.

<rant> Still, I am a bit frustrated. During this weekend I reported 2 regressions (wlan and ata) and I still try to find out why suspend/resume stopped working. In the meantime I have identified 2 patches (one was already known, I reported the 2nd to the usb maintainers) after 2.6.28 that caused suspend to ram regressions. In rc1 S2R was broken again. So I tried bisecting the third patch - which finally brought me to the btrfs bisect problem.

For me, this was the most annoying  merge window ever.

In my opinion we should really avoid subtree merges in the future as a curtesy to people who do the uncool work of testing, problem tracking and bisecting. </rant>

Christian
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  1. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  2. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009
  4. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  5. Boaz HarroshJan 11, 2009
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2009
  7. Sam RavnborgJan 11, 2009
  8. Alexey ZaytsevJan 11, 2009
  9. Pierre HabouzitJan 11, 2009
  10. Christian CouderJan 12, 2009
  11. Christian CouderJan 12, 2009
  12. Linus TorvaldsJan 11, 2009
  13. Christian BorntraegerJan 11, 2009
  14. Daniel BarkalowJan 11, 2009
  15. Kyle MoffettJan 13, 2009
  16. Andreas BombeJan 15, 2009
  17. Kyle MoffettJan 15, 2009
  18. Sam RavnborgJan 11, 2009
  19. Alexey ZaytsevJan 11, 2009
  20. Sam RavnborgJan 11, 2009
  21. Daniel BarkalowJan 11, 2009
  22. Andi KleenJan 11, 2009
  23. Johannes SchindelinJan 11, 2009

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