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Re: Problem with bisect

From
LFLarry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Date
Aug 6, 2007, 18:37 UTC
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<46B76A7F.3000103@lwfinger.net>
In-Reply-To
<20070806141233.3d8a43cc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Sean wrote:
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> 
> The directory "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211" is only introduced in
> commit v2.6.23-rc1-1621-gd05daff.   It didn't exist in v2.6.22.
> 
> You can see this with the command:
> 
>   $ git log -- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211
> 
> Where the last listed commit is d05daff.  So of course there will be many
> bisection points back to v2.6.22 where that directory just doesn't exist.
> A bit of digging with Git shows this history for most of the files in
> that directory:
> 
>   renamed in v2.6.23-rc1-1621 as bcm43xx-mac80211
>   renamed in v2.6.21-rc1-809 as mac80211
>   renamed in v2.6.17-rc2-357 as d80211/bcm43xx
>  Imported in v2.6.16-1725 as bcm43xx-d80211

Thanks for the response. Obviously the difficulties were due to the structure of the tree. This chunk of code has had a varied history.

Larry
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  5. Larry FingerAug 5, 2007
  6. Thomas GlanzmannAug 5, 2007
  7. Larry FingerAug 5, 2007
  8. SeanAug 6, 2007
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