linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

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Date:	Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:45:03 +0100
From:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>,
	"Michael B. Trausch" <mike@...usch.us>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc7

El Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:23:42 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> escribió:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
> > 
> >  Here you go 
> > 
> >  [alex@...da:kernel/linux-2.6]$ git bisect bad                                   
> > 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d is first bad commit
> 
> Excellent. One last step - can you verify that just reverting this commit 
> makes your problems go away?
> 
> IOW, just do
> 
> 	git bisect reset
> 
> to get out of bisect mode, and then do
> 
> 	git revert 31168481c32c8a485e1003af9433124dede57f8d

 Well i already sent the result of the revert on another mail;
it did not help :(

 I tried again with what i thought was my "good" commit and the
bug is there too :/

 could it be that something changed in userspace[1] between the
day i installed the 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348 and today that
make this bug trigger? i dunno

 Next step is try to find an "actually good" kernel and bisect
again sigh... 2.6.27.6 seems to work ok



> 
> and check that the end result is all good?
> 
> That's just to double-check that the revert is sufficient, but also 
> because "git bisect" is very sensitive to false information (ie if it 
> happens that a bug sometimes is not entirely repeatable, then a single 
> wrong "git bisect bad/good" will result in the pinpointed commit being 
> possibly totally the wrong one).
> 
> And Al - can you double-check that commit?
> 
> 		Linus

 [1] distro updates

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