On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:46:32AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> It could be that the regression was caused not by a single change, but by 
> a large collection of changes that, taken together, altered the timing of 
> the computer.

Are you sure it's only timing? If so, I can add printk's or some other
simple thing to let me time things, and see the differences. Or would
that be too inaccurate?

> 
> > What should be my next step?
> 
> I don't know.  You could try binary dissection on the individual patches 
> between -rc1 and -rc2.  Here's a URL that has a list of all of them (plus 
> a lot more, if you let the transfer go all the way):
> 
> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|tags
> 

I am a complete ignorant regarding bitkeeper. Are they ordered in the
order they were applied?
If I am not mistaken, that's 274 changesets between rc1 and rc2. If I
understand right, doing a binary search will only take me around 9
kernel compilations to find the point it stopped working. Am I wrong? Is
it considered ok to download all these 274 in a row? IIRC it was
questionable, at least on a larger scale.

> It would be a lot of work, though.  I don't know any way to get a simple 
> file containing all those patches.  It might be possible using git.

I might look at git if I have time.

> 
> Also, you should post debugging logs showing the difference between -rc1 
> and -rc2.

I will.

> 
> > logs:
> > As mentioned, all of them done with 2.6.14-rc3, config at
> > <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/usb/config-2.6.14-rc3>
> > 
> > All created by doing 'dmesg -c >> log' once a second, from before
> > plugging in to after plugging out.
> > 
> > dmesg of the working machine, while plugging in and out the card reader:
> > <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/usb/wcr>
> > working machine, plugin/out the pen:
> > <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/usb/wpen>
> > 
> > non-working, card reader:
> > <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/usb/nwcr>
> > The card reader does work - that is, I can mount it and copy from it.
> > But unlike in the working machine, the kernel continues to try doing
> > something and outputs lots of stuff during that.
> > 
> > non-working, pen:
> > <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/usb/nwpen>
> > I noticed (by doing cat /proc/partitions) that it does manage to see the
> > device for a few seconds (probably at the time it says in the logs 'sda1
> > sda3'), then looses the connection.
> 
> I can't access any of these logs: Error 403.

I don't know why. It does seem to work now. Can you try again?
-- 
Didi



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