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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle•com>,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
	mingo <mingo@redhat•com>, tglx <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	hpa <hpa@zytor•com>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] fork and exit: need to include iocontext.h
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:34:17 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701103417.c0c09538.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080630183337.GD32211@elte.hu>

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:33:37 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte•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@canb•auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30 17:54 [PATCH -next] fork and exit: need to include iocontext.h Randy Dunlap
2008-06-30 18:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-30 18:22   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-06-30 18:33     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-30 18:39       ` Randy Dunlap
2008-06-30 18:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-01  0:34       ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2008-06-30 18:38 ` Jens Axboe

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