bisect on fedora kernels

[Ian Malone]

On 20 August 2013 13:50, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I've got a kernel bug where a developer has asked me to try a git
>> bisect. Does anyone have tips for doing a kernel bisect with fedora
>> kernel packages? I found a koji bisect thing, but the last known good
>> kernel is prior to the fedora release the machine is currently
>> running, so not sure that is an option. Or do I just have to grit my
>
> That shouldn't really be an issue for the most part.  It would only
> impact you if you're hitting issues in an area where the config
> options differ between releases, and those are fairly uncommon.  You
> can try using koji bisect to start with to at least save yourself some
> time.
>
>> teeth and try to get vanilla kernels built and installed?
>> Other packages I've just dropped the bisected source directly into my
>> rpmbuild, but guessing it's not going to be quite that simple here.
>
> Basically, the best bet is to copy the fedora kernel config into a
> kernel git tree and just use git bisect, make bzImage, make modules,
> make modules_install, make install.  If you want to save some build
> time, trim the config to not include the bajillion modules we ship.
>

That's great, thanks for the advice.

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