From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger•net>
To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico•ca>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with bisect
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:37:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B76A7F.3000103@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806141233.3d8a43cc.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Sean wrote:
>
> The directory "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211" is only introduced in
> commit v2.6.23-rc1-1621-gd05daff. It didn't exist in v2.6.22.
>
> You can see this with the command:
>
> $ git log -- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx-mac80211
>
> Where the last listed commit is d05daff. So of course there will be many
> bisection points back to v2.6.22 where that directory just doesn't exist.
> A bit of digging with Git shows this history for most of the files in
> that directory:
>
> renamed in v2.6.23-rc1-1621 as bcm43xx-mac80211
> renamed in v2.6.21-rc1-809 as mac80211
> renamed in v2.6.17-rc2-357 as d80211/bcm43xx
> Imported in v2.6.16-1725 as bcm43xx-d80211
Thanks for the response. Obviously the difficulties were due to the structure of the tree. This
chunk of code has had a varied history.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-05 16:02 Problem with bisect Larry Finger
[not found] ` <20070805145234.554bf671.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2007-08-05 19:24 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-05 19:44 ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-08-05 20:33 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-06 18:12 ` Sean
2007-08-06 18:37 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-08-07 1:50 ` Christian Couder
2007-08-07 2:53 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-07 5:26 ` Christian Couder
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