Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:23:30 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Daniel Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding changes from one release/patch level to another? Message-ID: <20030207152330.GC34312@straylight.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20030207153658.GB90222@opus.celabo.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0302070917530.19912@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu> <20030207153658.GB90222@opus.celabo.org>
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--p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:36:58AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0500, Daniel Ellard wrote: > >=20 > > Something slightly broke the em (gigabit ethernet) driver between > > 4.6.2p4 and 4.6.2p6, and I'm trying to figure what the change was so I > > can back it out on my machine. In 4.6.2p6 almost everything works, > > but programs that push the device (such as netperf) can hang. The > > same program running on other ethernet devices (fxp, xl) works fine. > > This happens on several machines, and they were all running correctly > > before I updated them, so I doubt that it is a hardware problem. > >=20 > > I don't see any changes for the em driver source itself between p4 and > > p6, and the announced differences between these patch levels don't > > look related, but something must have changed. =20 >=20 > It seems awfully unlikely that the changes between 4.6.2p4 and 4.6.2p6 > have anything to do with your problem. I think you are probably barking > up the wrong tree. >=20 > > Is there a > > straightforward way to track down all the source code differences > > between p4 and p6 (or any arbitrary pair of patchlevels)? >=20 > Check out the RELENG_4_6 branch. Then run e.g. >=20 > cvs -q diff -j 'RELENG_4_6:2002/10/28' -j 'RELENG_4_6:2003/01/08' Argh.. this is "the third, obvious solution" that I missed in my other mail :) The fact that the branches are not tagged does not prevent a cvs diff, of course it doesn't! G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wou= ldn't be false. --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+Q89y7Ri2jRYZRVMRArkPAKCJ71eNOBvSFBSbDSGBW/vZJ6BVjQCfVQZk EfoS4KM9z25cJtvVVaRRCFU= =wb6C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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