linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29 on MacBook 2,1 fails to reboot

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Message-ID: <9b1675090903300826s2ce361e5s1134e13507b0399@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:26:13 -0600
From:	"Trenton D. Adams" <trenton.d.adams@...il.com>
To:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
Cc:	"Morten P.D. Stevens" <mstevens@...-professional.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29 on MacBook 2,1 fails to reboot

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Alistair John Strachan
<alistair@...zero.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 30 March 2009 08:33:06 Trenton D. Adams wrote:
>>
>> And, if I mark the 2.6.27 one as bad, it just remains on 2.6.27.
>
> Don't worry about the kernel version it generates. Git bisections traverse
> merged branches, including those that weren't rebased before being merged (in
> fact the preferred work flow). I usually add "-bisect" to CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
> so I can isolate my work in progress bisection from system kernels.
>
> You can trust git to involve only relevant commits between your initial "good"
> and "bad" markers; don't add more unless you have to. Sometimes you may need
> to "shift" the bisection midpoint if you encounter build breakage. You should
> be able to find comments Linus made on the subject by searching the LKML
> archive for "git bisect visualize".
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alistair.
>

Okay, so are you saying that switching back to 2.6.27 is okay, because
the patch that caused this problem may have been created in 2.6.27 (as
a patch to the released version perhaps), not applied to 2.6.28, and
then applied to 2.6.29?
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