On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 14:57 -0400, Grant Williamson wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to narrow down a wireless issue I am having with leap on > Fedora 9. Seems that in April the issue was fixed in the > compat-wireless-2.6 tarball. > > On http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6/2008/04/ most of > the archives for April are missing. Is there any > other mirror where I can find or checkout the archives between 20080407 > & 20080420? > > I need to track it down so the issue can get fixed on el5. The snapshots are not suitable for bisecting bugs. Even a single day can bring dozens of updates. This right tool for bisection is git. Please check out the wireless tree: git-clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git Then compile the kernel. See if the problem exists. You need to use reverse logic, since you are looking for a patch that fixed something, not a patch that broke it. Thus, if the problem is fixed, mark the revision as "bad" with "git-bisect bad". Then find a revision that is likely to have the problem. Use "git-tag -l" or an interactive tool, such as qgit or tig. Check it out with "git-checkout". Test the kernel. Mark is with "git-bisect bad" or "git-bisect good" using the same reversed logic. Once you find one "good" and one "bad" revision, git-bisect will be telling you what to test next, and a few tests later, you'll have the exact change you are looking for. You can also check logs for the problem or describe it here in case somebody knows which patch fixed it. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
