Bug#611946: Freezes apparently caused by ath9k

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:25:51PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:50:25 -0600
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > What is very helpful if you have time is
> > 
> >  1) describe the symptoms on the linux-wireless mailing list
> >  2) grab the kernel source:
> > 
> > 	git clone
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> > 
> >  3) bisect:
> > 
> > 	git bisect start
> > 	git bisect good v2.6.32
> > 	git bisect bad v2.6.35
> > 	make localmodconfig
> > 	make deb-pkg
> > 	... install the resulting .deb, reboot, try it, and then ...
> > 	git bisect good;	# if it works
> > 	git bisect bad;	# if it doesn't work
> > 
> >  4) let the linux-wireless people know which turned out to be the
> >     "first bad commit".
> 
> That sounds like a good idea. Is there an easy way to cross-compile for
> 686 on an x86_64 system eg by adding a variable to the make deb-pkg
> line? It will save loads of time if I can do it on my quad core desktop
> PC instead of my netbook's weedy Atom.

only with newer 2.6.38-rc4 :

 make ARCH=i386 deb-pkg

so currently only helps for linux-next or newer.