Subject: Kernel 3.15: Boot problems with a PA6T board

From: Christian Zigotzky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:28:06 +0200

On 29.05.2014 04:48, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 13:25 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> On 28.05.2014 10:53, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your answer and thank you for your help. :-)
>>>
>>> On 28.05.2014 06:23, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 01:08 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to guess that cd427485357c0c4b99f69719251baacf25946e11 is
>>>> BAD. Can
>>>> you please confirm or deny that?
>>> It's not BAD. It boots.
> Hmm, interesting.
>
>>>> If cd42748 is *good*, then you'll need to do a bigger bisect from
>>>> d8ff9cd to
>>>> 18a1a7a.
>> OK :-)
>>
>> -> git clone
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git linux2-git
>> -> git bisect start
>> -> git bisect good d8ff9cdf68fd119d491f3de90e1a612afc2f3b2b
>> -> git bisect bad 18a1a7a1d862ae0794a0179473d08a414dd49234
>>
>> Output:
>> Bisecting: 5900 revisions left to test after this (roughly 13 steps)
>> [cb1595563880a81dab6eab9a5ecb4520d2e76077] Merge tag 'tty-3.15-rc1' of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
>>
>> Unfortunately it doesn't boot. :-(
> OK. So you do:
>
> $ git bisect bad
>
> And it will pick a new commit for you to test. Repeat that ~13 times and you
> should have identified the bad commit.
OK :-)

git bisect bad
Bisecting: 2902 revisions left to test after this (roughly 12 steps)
[b22f136071b1a797e96b3ee6fb0dc32625bd152e] staging: rtl8821ae: Fix 
quoted string split across lines <- Kernel boots :-)

What shall I do next?

Cheers,

Christian