linux-kernel - Re: Need help debugging RT-preempt patch

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Date:	Mon, 07 May 2007 20:20:28 -0400
From:	john cooper <john.cooper@...rd-harmonic.com>
To:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
CC:	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, dirk.behme@...glemail.com,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	john cooper <john.cooper@...rd-harmonic.com>
Subject: Re: Need help debugging RT-preempt patch

Daniel Walker wrote:

> I'm not sure I'd get into "bisecting" one big patch. Especially if you
> new to the patches inner workings.. 
> 
> You can bisect by kernel version using the older patches but it's
> clearly limited,
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/

Actually working on this more closely over a year or so ago I
found a binary chop among patch versions to often be the
fastest means of locating the source of breakage.  Though that
may have been more applicable when several patch versions per
day were being generated.

-john

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john.cooper@...rd-harmonic.com
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