Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:23:50 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.59 won't boot, 2.5.58 will, how to I use bitkeeper to get 'in between' ? |
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Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux > patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system, > right after 'Uncompressing Linux...' > > I am willing to try which patch between 2.5.58 and 2.5.59 caused this, > but I can't find out how to extract these patches. If I browse the > linux-2.5 repository on the web-interface @ bitkeeper, I don't see a > message 'And with this patch-set, we've reached 2.5.58 - any patches > after this apply to 2.5.58 and will create 2.5.59 in due time'. > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/BK-usage/ seems to focus more on uploading > patches. There is something on getting the diff between two kernel > versions, but I need finer patches/revisions/changesets. I can see how > to download the initial tree, but what do I do next? >
I've been regularly snarfing the rollups from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/ for this very purpose.
Over at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/x/
You will find 15 patches, spread across the lifetime of the 2.5.58->2.5.59 cycle.
If you can identify which of those patches introduced the failure...
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