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Message-Id: <20060905133311.fd8d1ff7.akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:33:11 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc5-mm1 + all hotfixes -- INFO: possible recursive
locking detected
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:19:51 +0200
Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> One tool to make this a little bit easier is quilt. This should be
> available as a package for most distributions. I haven't tried it myself
> yet, but akpm's "broken-out" patch distribution can be manipulated by
> quilt.
Each -mm announcement contains the following text:
:- If you hit a bug in -mm and it is not obvious which patch caused it, it is
: most valuable if you can perform a bisection search to identify which patch
: introduced the bug. Instructions for this process are at
:
: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt
:
: But beware that this process takes some time (around ten rebuilds and
: reboots), so consider reporting the bug first and if we cannot immediately
: identify the faulty patch, then perform the bisection search.
:
;)
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