linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 8040] Hang before INIT when CONFIG

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Message-ID: <6bffcb0e0703140430i2202f14dw1681d5c70c1d4e28@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:30:55 +0100
From:	"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Nilshar@...il.com,
	"bugme-daemon@...nel-bugs.osdl.org" 
	<bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 8040] Hang before INIT when CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y

On 14/03/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:13:25 -0700 bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org wrote:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8040
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------- Additional Comments From Nilshar@...il.com  2007-03-14 03:13 -------
> > Any news on that bug please ?
>
> None whatsoever.  Three people are reporting this and it's a drop-dead
> showstopper for a 2.6.21 release so we just have to wait until someone
> wakes up and thinks about it.
>
> It would be very useful if one of the reporters could perform a git-bisect
> search to identify the offending change, please.
>
> I would dearly like to point you at a document or web page which describes
> kernel-git-bisect-for-newbies, but afaik there isn't such a thing, which is
> a huge failing.

"Linux testers handbook" should be translated in a few weeks.

Here is a "git-bisect basics" movie :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_LY-ceFbE

Regards,
Michal

-- 
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group (PL)
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LTG - Linux Testers Group (EN)
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