Where to clone kernel from

[Colin Law]

On 2 September 2015 at 18:12, Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 10:18:02AM -0400, 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.  By installing kernels from
>> >>http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D I have
>> >>determined that it was introduced between 3.19.8-vivid and
>> >>4.0-rc1-vivid.  The plan is to clone the kernel git repo and git
>> >>bisect to find the commit.  Since they are labelled vivid I cloned
>> >>git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-vivid.git (which took a long
>> >>time on my 1.5Mb broadband) but the latest tag in there is
>> >>3.19.0-28.30
>> >>
>> >>Is the right one to use
>> >>https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/wily?
>> >That does not contain the tags I am looking for either.  Does anyone
>> >know where there is a repository with tags for 3.19.8-vivid and
>> >4.0-rc1-vivid?
>
> I think Joe is helping you now, but for completness ...
>
> The builds you are referring to are the mainline builds.  Strictly
> there are no tags for those, you would reconstruct those by cloning
> the linux-stable tree and checking out the commit listed in COMMIT in
> the same directory as the downloaded binaries.  After that applying the
> patches ????-* in the same directory will recreate the tree the builder
> used to make the binaries.
>
> Hope that helps.

I think it has, yes.
As you say, Joe is building the kernels and passing them to me for
testing so hopefully we will home in on the offending code over the
next few days.

Thanks

Colin