* Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote > >> I guess Jeff, meant the other way around. > >> Since a0e280e0f33f6c859a235fb69a875ed8f3420388 is a fix for a known S2R > >> problem , the earlier patch (before) does of course not work. > > ah, okay. > > So i suspect that at every bisection point, this should be done: > > git cherry-pick a0e280e0f33f6c859a235fb69a875ed8f3420388 > > I started with the latest git, and did this ... > > git bisect start > git bisect bad > git bisect good a0e280e0f33f6c859a235fb69a875ed8f3420388 > > Everything in-between should have > a0e280e0f33f6c859a235fb69a875ed8f3420388 applied? not necessarily - if an intermediate tree that is checked happened to have been based on some earlier -rc, it might have that bug included. Safest is to always cherry-pick that commit. (if it has no dependencies) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
