On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Andrew Lutomirski [off-list ref] wrote:

OK, this sucks.  In the course of bisecting this, I've hit two other
apparently unrelated bugs that prevent my from testing large numbers
of kernels.  Do I have two questions:

1. Anyone have any ideas from looking at the log?

It looks like most of what's left is network code, so cc netdev.

2.  The !&$#@ bisection is skipping all over the place.  I've seen
2.6.37 versions and all manner of -rc's out of order.  Linus, and
other people who like pontificating about git bisection: is there any
way to get the bisection to follow Linus' tree?  I think that if
bisect could be persuaded to consider only changes that are reached by
following only the *first* merge parent all the way from the bad
revision to the good revision, then the bisection would build versions
that were at least good enough for Linus to pull and might have fewer
bisection-killing bugs.

(This isn't a new idea [1], and git rev-list --bisect --first-parent
isn't so bad except that it doesn't bisect.)

Did you forget to put the reference [1] in your email? Was it this one
you were thinking about:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165433/

?

Thanks,
Christian.