Re: Libata VIA woes continue. Worked around - *wrong*
From: Larry McVoy <hidden>
Date: 2004-08-30 14:45:57
Since BK changesets are ordered as a progression, you can also do a bsearch by clone trees to specific changesets, such as bk changes -rv2.6.6..2.6.7 > /tmp/changes.txt # view changes.txt, pick out cset 1.1587.39.1 as your "top of tree" bk clone -r1.1587.39.1 vanilla-2.6 brad-test-2.6.6-bk # compile and test the kernel in brad-test-2.6.6-bk
A couple of comments:
- BK changesets are not a linear progression, they are in the form of
a graph called a lattice. Getting a path through there that you can
do binary search on is not straightforward.
- The CVS tree represents one such straight path, get just the ChangeSet
file from the CVS tree and do an rlog on it - you are looking for the
lines like:
BKrev: 41316382Cxbyp1_yHDX8LmymGot3Ww
That rev is the "md5key" of the BK rev and can be used anywhere a BK
rev may be used (bk clone -r41316382Cxbyp1_yHDX8LmymGot3Ww ...)
- The biggest time saver is knowing where to look for your bug. If you
knew that the bug was in drivers/scsi/libata-core.c then you could
find each changeset which touched that file like so
$ bk rset -lv2.6.6 | grep drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
drivers/scsi/libata-core.c|1.39
$ bk prs -hnd:I: -r1.39.. drivers/scsi/libata-core.c | while read rev
do bk r2c -r$rev drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
done
That will crunch away and spit out (in this case) 63 revs like
1.1803.1.40
1.1803.1.39
1.1803.1.38
...
and a binary search over those revs is likely to be fair more fruitful
because the history of that one file is pretty linear.
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