Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 | Date | Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:59:09 +0100 |
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Hi, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - If you hit a bug in -mm and it's 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
You can also use the mm->git tree (at .../linux/kernel/git/smurf/ /linux-trees.git) and use "git bisect".
It'll be a bit slower, but the upside is that it's able to descend into the git trees which Andrew has imported into mm as monolithic patches.
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