Hi Roman, On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:45:28 +0100 (CET), Roman Zippel wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > I tried a git bisect to find out what commit was reponsible for it, and > > the winner is... > > > > 8993780a6e44fb4e7ed34e33458506a775356c6e is first bad commit > > commit 8993780a6e44fb4e7ed34e33458506a775356c6e > > Author: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Mon Dec 11 09:28:46 2006 -0800 > > > > [..] > > Reverting this from 2.6.20-rc1 made the build behave again, however I > > found that reverting it from 2.6.20-rc2 did _not_ fix the problem. I > > also had to revert the following patch to make things work as before > > again: > > > > commit ef129412b4cbd6686d0749612cb9b76e207271f4 > > Author: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri Dec 22 01:12:01 2006 -0800 > > To make the list complete, this patch started all the mess: > > commit a2ee8649ba6d71416712e798276bf7c40b64e6e5 > Author: Herbert Poetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Dec 8 02:36:00 2006 -0800 > > [PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information > > and this tries to fix a problem in Andrew's patch: > > commit d449db98d5d7d90f29f9f6e091b0e1d996184df1 > Author: Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Dec 29 16:48:09 2006 -0800 > > [PATCH] fix mrproper incompleteness > > The patch below reverts pretty much everything and instead introduces a > seperate format string for proc. > (...) > [PATCH] fix linux banner format string > > Revert previous attempts at messing with the linux banner string and > simply use a separate format string for proc.
This fixes the problem I reported. Thanks Roman! Linus, Andrew, if Roman's patch looks OK to you, can it please be applied before 2.6.20 is released? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
