On Tuesday 08 February 2011 01:46:16 Gadiyar, Anand wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Ed Tomlinson <edt@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I tried bisecting without much luck. It started with about 4000 commits to check. It was still bad > > when it reached the first 1000 commits post .37. Then all boots started crashing. I think its possible > > to restrict a bisect to a directory - if so, what dir should I try? > > > > Maybe drivers/ or drivers/usb would be enough for a first attempt? > I usually start there. > > You could just do: > > git bisect start -- [path] > > to restrict bisection to commits that touch [path]. This is as far as I can get: # bad: [100b33c8bd8a3235fd0b7948338d6cbb3db3c63d] Linux 2.6.38-rc4 # good: [3c0eee3fe6a3a1c745379547c7e7c904aa64f6d5] Linux 2.6.37 # good: [387c31c7e5c9805b0aef8833d1731a5fe7bdea14] Linux 2.6.37-rc8 # good: [90a8a73c06cc32b609a880d48449d7083327e11a] Linux 2.6.37-rc7 # good: [c8ddb2713c624f432fa5fe3c7ecffcdda46ea0d4] Linux 2.6.37-rc1 git bisect start 'v2.6.38-rc4' 'v2.6.37' 'v2.6.37-rc8' 'v2.6.37-rc7' 'v2.6.37-rc1' '--' 'drivers/usb' 'drivers/bluetooth' # good: [5cdc5bd8b2b1190cb54548c03194b154b4892e2a] Merge branch 'musb-hw' of git://gitorious.org/usb/usb into musb git bisect good 5cdc5bd8b2b1190cb54548c03194b154b4892e2a # bad: [f2c565e223af39ed38be5c84b1a37b591b22db83] xHCI: replace dev_dbg() with xhci_dbg() git bisect bad f2c565e223af39ed38be5c84b1a37b591b22db83 # good: [2af10844eb6ed104f9505bf3a7ba3ceb02264f31] USB: Merge 2.6.37-rc5 into usb-next git bisect good 2af10844eb6ed104f9505bf3a7ba3ceb02264f31 # bad: [3e5b08cbbf78bedd316904ab0cf3b27119433ee5] Merge branch 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 git bisect bad 3e5b08cbbf78bedd316904ab0cf3b27119433ee5 # good: [1051b9f0f9eab8091fe3bf98320741adf36b4cfa] Merge branch 'for-rmk' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into devel-stable git bisect good 1051b9f0f9eab8091fe3bf98320741adf36b4cfa After this the kernel does not build. Any clues? Ed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
