Where to clone kernel from

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 09/02/2015 11:24 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 September 2015 at 15:58, Joseph Salisbury
> <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 09/02/2015 10:18 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>> On 09/01/2015 02:05 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 1 September 2015 at 16:38, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully this is an appropriate forum to ask this. Am helping to
>>>>> track down bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071 which
>>>>> exhibits itself on my laptop running Wily.
>> ...
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> Nicholas is correct with the location of the mainline tree.  You could
>> also perform the bisect with the Wily tree, but it's usually more
>> straight forward to use the mainline tree.
>>
>> One thing to note, 3.19.8 and 4.0-rc1 are not linear tags.  The kernel
>> forks when 3.19.1 is released as the first 3.19 stable version.
>> Mainline then continues along with 4.0-rc1.  This means that you can
>> only bisect between v3.19 final and v4.0-rc1.  That is as long as you
>> are sure that 3.19 final does not have the bug and 4.0-rc1 does.
>>
>> Did you happen to open a Launchpad bug for this?  If so, can you send
>> the bug number?  I'd be more than happy to help you perform this
>> bisect.  I can perform the bisect and build test kernels for you to
>> test.  You would then just need to report back if the test kernel
>> exhibits the bug ore not.
> Hi Joe
>
> Thanks for the offer. There was an existing bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793 but that
> has become out of date I think so I have opened a new one
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1491467
>
> I have determined that the last of the 3.19 kernels is ok but the
> first version in the wily tree that will build using fakeroot
> debian/rules binary-headers binary-generic, which is
>
> commit 636cdd7b2930ca2cdaf90eedd04fdb9fc7a8d5ec
> Author: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> Date: Thu Feb 14 09:55:49 2008 -0500
>     UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) ubuntu: dm-raid45
>
> does have the problem, so I don't know where to go from there.
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
Hi Colin,

Thanks for opening the bug.  I'll perform the bisect for you.  I just
update the bug with a couple of kernels to test before starting the bisect.

Thanks,

Joe