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From: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with git bisect between 2.6.15 and 2.6.16
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:22:33 -0800
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> No, the problem was fixed in 2.6.16 and I'm trying to figure out what fixed it so that I
> can back-port the fix into a previous kernel version, so 2.6.16 is good and 2.6.15 is bad.

You'll need to invert "good" and bad" for this.  I.e. mark 2.6.15 as
good, 2.6.16 as bad, and
then as you test mark kernels with the bug as good, and ones without
as bad.  Try not to go
insane while working in this inverted parallel universe :-)

-Tony