OK - narrowed it down. tested the pre-built 3.15.5-1~exp1 which works, and 3.16~rc5-1~exp1, and the latter breaks in the way I'm seeing.
Dave On 6 January 2015 at 10:36, Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 23:34 +0000, Dave Williams wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > OK - so far I've got: > > - 3.14.15-2 works (found a .deb in apt archives on another machine) > > - 3.15.5 works (built this from source, but without applying debian > > patches (i.e. just unpackaged linux_3.15.5.orig.tar.xz and built that > > - haven't worked out how to apply all the debian patches yet (I'm > > assuming it's not tricky? I just haven't had time to find out how it's > > done))) > > - 3.16.7-ckt2-1 does not work (again - this is a pre-built .deb) > > > > I'll keep you posted as I try different versions. > > If there are any particular versions where changes were made to the > > ata-piix driver (or whatever it depends on), then I can try them. > > Otherwise I'll just keep doing what I'm doing... Next one I've > > downloaded source for is 3.16.2. I'll let you know how that one pans > > out. > > Rather than building things yourself why not just use the existing > binaries from http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/ as Ben > suggested? > Because I'm a numpty! :-) Really don't know how I missed the binaries there. > Between 3.15.5-1~exp1 (you've tested 3.15.5 but it'd be worth confirming > the actual package in case some patch is responsible) and 3.16.7-ckt2-1 > that would give you (ignoring the ~bpo ones) these options: > * 3.16.7-2 > * 3.16.7-1 > * 3.16.5-1 > * 3.16.3-2 > * 3.16.3-1 > * 3.16.2-3 > * 3.16.2-2 > * 3.16-1~exp1 > * 3.16~rc6-1~exp1 > * 3.16~rc5-1~exp1 > Which you could bisect through in ~4 iterations without needing to build > anything at all. Chances are that would narrow it down to a particular > rc or a range of 1-2 stable releases. > > Ian. > > >
