linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] ktest: Use config-bisect.pl in ktest.pl

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Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2017 15:18:32 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ktest: Use config-bisect.pl in ktest.pl

On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 19:16:30 -0500
Scott Wood <swood@...hat.com> wrote:

> Reduce code duplication and take advantage of bisection logic
> improvements by calling config-bisect.pl.
> 
> The output of make oldconfig is now copied directly to the desired file,
> rather than doing assign_configs+save_config, in order to preserve the
> ordering so that diffing the configs at the end will provide useful
> output.

The reason I never did this, was that I copy ktest.pl all over the
place :-/ I need it to be a stand alone. I don't copy config-bisect
around. Not sure how to deal with this.

-- Steve