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Message-Id: <20080701103417.c0c09538.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:34:17 +1000
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo <mingo@...hat.com>,
tglx <tglx@...utronix.de>, hpa <hpa@...or.com>,
akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] fork and exit: need to include iocontext.h
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:33:37 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> normally there's an easy way to find out the source commit of build
> failures. Try something like:
>
> git-bisect reset
> git-bisect start
> git-bisect good v2.6.26-rc8
More generally "git-bisect good linux-next/stable" - the stable branch is
just where I started on Linus' tree and that is always good :-)
> git-bisect bad linux-next/master
> git-bisect run make kernel/fork.o
>
> ... this should lead you to the commit that broke the build
> automatically. (as long as everyone keeps make oldconfig compatibility)
Nice, I must try this.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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