On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Bob Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Jonathan Guerin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>>>> The ath5k STA/AP virtualization patch went in as well.  Any chance you
>>>> could bisect to see what patch causes the problem?
>>
>> I'm not familiar with doing it, but one of my colleagues is. I'll try
>> to apply just that one patch to the 2.6.35 branch and see if it still
>> occurs.
>
> One somewhat inefficient but easy way to bisect is to just try different
> compat-wireless snapshots and find the earliest bad one.  That should at
> least narrow it down to the guilty patchset.
>
> Unfortunately, it may narrow it down to a few dozen unrelated patches
> since they all tend to go in about the same time, but it may be a bit
> less messy than git-based bisection.  I usually do git bisect myself
> but you need to be careful to properly handle build breakages and such.

Wow you weren't kidding about build breakages! Just to get this clear,
after setting a build to 'bad', it will choose the next commit hash to
use. Does it automatically then check that out, or do I need to:
git checkout <hash>
git reset --hard <hash>

I may be getting this workflow a bit wrong...

Thanks,

Jonathan

>
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