I have built the kernel on this machine before, but never from github. I usually use the tar.gz files or packages from Gentoo Portage. Unfortunately I know how to use git only at basic level (pull, push, commit etc). I have never used bisect feature before and don't know how it works. 2017-02-02 12:42 GMT+02:00 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 12:26:41PM +0200, Vitaly Tonkacheyev wrote: >> I don't know how to do it. >> ~/github $ git clone https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git >> ~/github $ cd linux >> ~/github/linux $ git bisect start >> ~/github/linux $ git bisect bad v4.9 >> ~/github/linux $ git bisect good v4.8 >> fatal: BUG: attempt to snprintf into too-small buffer > > Huh? Where did that bug line come from? git? > > That's really odd. > > Have you built a kernel before on this machine? > > thanks, > > greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html