Re: Wierdness - linux-next KVM patch breaks Dell Latitude D820, KVM not in kernel

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:41:28 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx said:

> Yeah, I was quite confused by the bisect results as well, I may end up
> re-doing it just to make sure I didn't screw something up along the way (since
> I started it with -rc7/HEAD as the good/bad, but most of the resulting
> kernels reported a pre-rc7 release (a 2.6.28 at one point, IIRC, and it
> finished at 31-rc2.

I've become convinced that Something Really Bad happened to the KVM tree in
linux-next on its way to my laptop - after 2 bisects, it reported I had some
2,000 commits left to check.  So I ran 'git bisect visualize' to sanity check.

And *every single one* of those 4,000 commits between 'good' and 'bad' was a
KVM commit, stretching all the way back to 2007.  Unless that's an artifact
of the way linux-next is built, I would have expected only "new-ish" commits
to be in the bisect window, and not just out of one tree...

So I ended up doing a 'WTF?', an 'rm -r', and am cloning over today's linux-next
and will see if that brings me any better joy.

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