From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:37:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem with bisect
Message-ID: <46B76A7F.3000103@lwfinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070806141233.3d8a43cc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

Sean wrote:
> 
> 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