On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:50:22 +0100 "Michal Pokrywka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd have expected that this would have been caused by i386 platform > > borkage. But in the debian bug report, Michal has fingered davem's > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.18.y. > > git;a=commit;h=050bbb196392b9c178f82b1205a23dd2f915ee93 > > as the cause. > > > > Michal, what makes you believe that this particualr patch is to > > blame? > > Sorry, I'm not git expert, I only browsed sunhme.c changes through > http interface and I downloaded a11 driver revisions between what > I considered 2.6.17 driver (by date) and latest revision. > I compiled all revisions by hand and insmoded all these modules > until driver worked. Probably I didn't mentioned it in bug report, > but after loading working driver and kernel assigning correct > interrupts as seen in dmesg, all driver revisions loaded afterwards > worked, even those bad. > >From my pov driver is broken, because older version works with > 2.6.18. > OK, thanks. That method works ;) The usual technique is git-bisect. That's briefly described in Documentation/BUG-HUNTING, but that just send you to the git-bisect manpage. Perhaps we need a super-simple kernel-specific document. But anyway. That's for next time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
