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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 19:32:27 +0200 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@...il.com>, Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, Linux PM List <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Linux SCSI List <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, DRI <dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc1-git2: Reported regressions from 2.6.31 On Friday 02 October 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: > Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote: > > If you add one more entry say "Suspected commit :" then it will be great > > and will solve regressions much faster. > > Will? Might. In fact I add the "First-Bad-Commit" annotation where there is a bisection result or it's possible to fix things by reverting a specific commit. > > You can request submitter to > > submit 'suspected commit' by git bisect and also specify git bisect > > links like : (for more information about git bisect check > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/11753) > > I disagree. A reporter should only be asked to bisect (using git or > other tools) /if/ a developer determined that bisection may speed up the > debugging process or is the only remaining option to make progress with > a bug. > > It would be wrong to steal a reporter's valuable time by asking for > bisection before anybody familiar with the matter even had a first look > at the report. Agreed. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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