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Re: git tree of svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/*/linux-2.6



On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 13:53 -0700, Jeff Carr wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 19:04, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > This is an experimental repository that hopefully makes it easier to see
> > the patches we apply.  You can build packages from it using 'make
> > deb-pkg', but that's not what we do.
> 
> It would be helpful if you could include a config file. I tried the
> one from the 2.6.35 experimental package, but it doesn't work with
> this tree.

You may be looking at the wrong branch.

> >> Ultimately all I'm trying to do is track down a regression in the
> >> 2.6.33 and above kernels that cause the xorg not to work on a lenovo
> >> T61p.
> >
> > If you're intending to run a bisection, don't bother with the Debian
> > package; it will only get in your way.  Take a clone of Linus's
> > repository.
> 
> Because I think this is a config issue only so bisection isn't necessary.

I doubt it.

> So I guess I expecting there would be a way to look at either a git or
> svn log of the config files so I could go through the options that
> were changed.

The kernel configuration for each flavour is are made by combining
multiple files.  There is no simple way to view the history of the
complete configuration for any given flavour.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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