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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:04 AM, John W. Linville
<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:56:54AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM, John W. Linville
>> <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:27:06PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> >> 04:23  * mcgrof is confused, I just did a git bisect -i on
>> >> wireless-testing on some patch on Fri Jul 2 00:09:49 2010  and ended
>> >> up with a 2.6.34 top level
>> >>           Makefile
>> >> 04:23 < mcgrof> it was git rebase -i ba17bc5e55ba541d2a8765fca53b6883b667ab21
>> >> 04:23 < mcgrof> eh
>> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> how am I supposed to bisect wl now
>> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> the odd thing though is that the top commit is ancient
>> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/242077/
>> >> 04:24 < mcgrof> but the other ones are OK
>> >>
>> >> I realize we should use wireless-2.6.git to bisect stable but I need
>> >> to bisect against recent patches that spans different master- tags
>> >> from you, I figured git bisecting wireless-testing would work now that
>> >> you are using a different method to move your tree forward but am I
>> >> wrong? Should I only bisect between master tags still?
>> >
>> > wireless-testing is a nasty mess when it comes to bisection.
>> > I am considering a one-time rebase of wireless-testing after the
>> > next -rc1, now that the current process is working reasonably well.
>> > wireless-testing will continue to have a messy history, but it should
>> > be a bit less nasty after a rebase.
>> >
>> > As for right now, it sounds like you should just use wireless-next-2.6
>> > instead?
>>
>> Oh OK, didn't realize that was bisectable, thanks. Also was unsure if
>> I'd get other subsystems's -next components. Is wireless-next.git just
>> the -next bits for 802.11 or does it also suck up net-next?
>
> Usually just the wireless bits, but I did just pull the bluetooth stuff
> (which included some net-next stuff).

Oh neat. OK so which net-next.git release was wireless-next.git based
on and what net-next.git release was bluetooth-next.git based on? Did
it bump your next-next.git or do you routinely pull next-next.git into
your own wireless-next.git?

  Luis
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